Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Unchained is a *terrible* thing to use as a WAR: it eats your Wrath stacks while simultaneously preventing you from using Inner Beast. If you're using Unchained, you're reducing your mitigation.
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AoE damage and enmity are a more complex question than you might think. The PLD AoEs are effectively free: CoS has no cost and Flash costs MP.
Here is the problem with your math.. you are not comparing apple to apple. Supposedly, in your math, you are assuming while tanking PLD always have full health to do a full 300 pot Spirit Within, but at the same time, you assume WAR will never use IB on CD because they need to save it for big hits. Does the PLD never get hit in your scenario?

If you want to compare damage, you need to compare a WAR going all out without consideration of his own survival.

Also, I liked how you downplayed WAR's Aoe damage/enmity output compared to PLD. Even if flash and COS is free (flash will eventually require PLD to regen his own mana), it doesn't change the obvious fact that WAR who can also use flash, overpowered/vengeance/Steel cyclone will out enmity/damage PLD (which is more important to the 'AOE down Adds' scenarios).

You called Overpowered 'laughable damage compared to DPS AoEs and has a much smaller area of effect' but somehow PLD's CS is not laughable?