Yoshi P talks about Warriors- from Producer Letter Live @ TGS

[Delorean]

AK, Ifrit and Garuda aren't endgame content to you? Has to just be Coil and HM Titan?

No.

2 boss fights that are literally easier than some of the earlier dungeons in this game and 2 of the easiest dungeons in the game are not endgame content. Calling Ifrit, Garuda, AK and WP endgame is like saying World of Warcraft PvE is about running heroic dungeons. This content presents no challenge.

Though, with how you are rewarded for your time, im not sure that i'd want WP or AK to be more difficult.

Yoshi P says to do research so Research I do! ^o^

well i hate to interrupt your epiphany

but this was my first and only choice for theoretical optimization, but im glad it took you a month to realize what others have known for a month so that you can come to the forums and tell us all how whiny and bad we are at WAR and just need to do more research.

PLD could randomly die from crit Mountain Buster / bomb combo

should have hit that immune or sentinel, player problem

[HiirNoivl]

LOL I already knew all this!

I'm sure that there are some that figured it out even before you. I'm glad that you are also experimenting but I'm not interested in fighting over who knew first what will be eventually common knowlege.

One thing though is that WHM should spam Stoneskin on WAR rather than try to cure them. Stoneskin is 1500 hp. I've done Garuda where my HP was never once dipped under 7000 except during Astral Flow.

Yes this is very good advice.

You are also basing your effectiveness on Garuda and Demon Wall. And you still note that your gear is *better* than the Paladin needs to do the same content. How have you done, as a Warrior, main tanking, with your crit setup...in Coil?

I have only had this set up for a day. Results are pending. My gear is not better than Paladins. Paladins wear gear that are optimized for their job so they are more successful. I'm starting to think that Yoshi P is correct. People think PLDs are better now because they are wearing PLD optimal gear on WAR and WAR sucks with PLD optimal Gear. Once WARs start gearing for their job, then WAR will start to outshine PLD.

This brings up other questions. Mainly how worthwhile stacking Skill Speed would be. I've mentioned one potential help to WAR being increasing frequency of attacks, but I figure it would require an obscene amount of Skill Speed to reduce the GCD to a point where you could spam attacks to heal yourself to counteract damage (not taking unlucky crits and heavy auto-attacks into account). There's also TP regeneration to keep in mind, as lower GCDs means you're using TP faster than it replenishes (though I guess all that does is make you extremely dependent on bards).

I tried this and while results were good, it was just not practical. You need to have a SCH that uses Fey Light on you for you to REALLY take off like a Rocket. Other than that, too many situations came up that ruined the effect that SkSp had.

You will sprinkle your gear with SkSp as a matter of course, but I feel that SkSp is more of a DD job thing and is not actually needed on a WAR that hits 1.5x damage Crits regularly.