Quote Originally Posted by Vic_Viper View Post

Warriors get chunked hard and can only respond with reactive burst healing.
Hello,

And yes, I agree completely. I've been giving this thread a lot more consideration, I've gone back and taken a look at the skills of a WAR. While I will be trying to build a set up to get that magic 9999 number, expecting a healer to supply that is unrealistic. Other people will likely need healing too and there's only so much MP that a healer has.

My conclusion is, while stacking VIT for Max HP is important, it will only take you so far. WAR self healing is infinite HP for as long as the monster lives. Currently, I have over 7k as a base, but my self heals have not scaled as much, making it more difficult on healers (well, except SCH, you beasts). Therefore, as much as some folks will decry this decision, I'll be foregoing any further acquisitions in favor of Vit and moving to STR instead.

What led me to this conclusion? An honest assessment of the limits of VIT as well as realizing that WAR skills refer to STR, Attacks and attack potency for about 16 times and Max HP only 4 times. While VIT is still important and I'm not going to drop below 7k, adding another 2k HP is a pointless, climbing-it-because-its-there, exercise. At endgame, WARs need to maximize self-healing. WARs need to maximize Damage Dealt.

Self healing relies almost entirely on damage dealt. Damage Dealt relies on Stats like Strength, Accuracy, Crit Rate, Skill Speed and Determination. On the AF2 stats, for every 8 points of Vitality there is 7 points of STR. In other gear, the stats are similar, with Vit contributing only a few points more than STR was. So WAR cannot be viable, I believe, without contributing as much points to your Attack potency as you do to VIT.

I had planned to go for more DL jewelry of Fending, but I've since changed my mind. My neck and my ear slots were the next to get upgraded and I've decided to go with Maiming or Striking...and probably both since I will definitely want to stack Skill Speed if there was a SCH in the group. (You beasts!)