ARR Attack Magic Damage Test (beta3) Int, dtr & acc

[Deli]

Funny you mentioned the bolded part. I parsed several ifrit fights during the last test and was no.1 DD as WAR in every one of them.

but big molly, other DD need to run for cracks... I think the cracks only spawn on non-tanking members unless they are all dead.
and /nod ppl complain FF14 isn't active enough... they should try tanking. I was constantly on my toes and smashing buttons whenever I can.

/nod to Hulan, 3-10k samples was what I think will generate reasonable data set.

It's the hmm lv32 that jungle one. The most difficult one for healer is the first mini boss set, a bunch birds. I played it 4 times so far, 3 pld 1 war. on 3 fights, my cure2 was non-stopping firing cus don't know why tank keep getting hit by something 600 damage. Then, before I knew it, all the little birds were on me... But this recent one was different, this pld tank, in militia gear set, did some magic trick that he survived without much cares. I can even switch to Cleric Stance and nuke a little or esuna every single poison I saw. I think the boss is using some single-target ws...
The final dragon boss the kitty pld also dodged most poison breath and only got hit once. The charging time for poison breath is super long, I don't know why previous tanks can't do it...

[Molly_Millions]

but big molly, other DD need to run for cracks... I think the cracks only spawn on non-tanking members unless they are all dead.
and /nod ppl complain FF14 isn't active enough... they should try tanking. I was constantly on my toes and smashing buttons whenever I can.

I think it's determined by how much hate each person has, but I haven't watched closely enough to say for sure. It's definitely different from 1.0 though where THM or BLM were top DD as long as they weren't dead.

But yeah, the fact that as tank, I get to wail on Iffy more, definitely had something to with the amount of damage I'm dealing out. It just seems night and day different compared to 1.0.

[Hulan]

/nod ppl complain FF14 isn't active enough... they should try tanking. I was constantly on my toes and smashing buttons whenever I can.

We're getting a little off topic here, but speaking of smashing buttons while tanking. I've noticed a lot of MRD tanks on the Beta forums singing the praises of spamming Overpower.

Am I the only person who things this is an awefully inefficient way to achieve the desired effect. I mean sure, you need to hit it from time to time on big groups to keep hate off of the healers and AoE DDs, but in every group I've tanked Dungeons for, one Overpower and one Flash to open, rotate in Maim, then one more Overpower was more than enough to keep hate on the whole group unless there was an overzealous THM, in which case I just had to swap in one more Overpower after killing the first mob....

Maybe I'm just totally deluded.

[Molly_Millions]

We're getting a little off topic here, but speaking of smashing buttons while tanking. I've noticed a lot of MRD tanks on the Beta forums singing the praises of spamming Overwhelm.

Am I the only person who things this is an awefully inefficient way to achieve the desired effect. I mean sure, you need to hit it from time to time on big groups to keep hate off of the healers and AoE DDs, but in every group I've tanked Dungeons for, one Overwhelm and one Flash to open, rotate in Maim, then one more Overwhelm was more than enough to keep hate on the whole group unless there was an overzealous THM, in which case I just had to swap in one more Overwhelm after killing the first mob....

Maybe I'm just totally deluded.

I don't spam it. My rotation at least for Iffy is generally like this after initially grabbing hate:

Heavy Swing
Skull Sunder
Heavy Swing
Maim
Overpower

I'll toss a Flash in there every once in a while because the GCD seems to get screwed up, and flash seems to fix it. I'll toss Foresight in there when it's up, and Use Brutal Swing to try to stun Iffy and stop his plumes. After the nail I usually pop a mega potion of strength for fun.


As long as somebody else doesn't grab hate before me then run around like an asshat, I never have any issues.