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

[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.