WAR-Trying to think out of the box: Should Defiance be always Active during fights?

[Ehayte]

Just wanted to pick up on the outside the box thread, as I abandoned a PLD just before end-game-ish content to begin leveling up a WAR.

Have we thought about how healers should be healing WARs? With WAR spike damage and spike recovery, is there something healers should be doing fundamentally different so that the overheal/overlap of those spikes is lessened?

i.e. should WARs be healed differently than PLDs? It would certainly make a genius and interesting MMO if what tank you had in the group changed how every single other player played. Like how having a BLM lets you sleep mobs efficiently, but having single target DPS you need to AE aggro and mitigate a lot more damage.

[Corkafish]

i.e. should WARs be healed differently than PLDs? It would certainly make a genius and interesting MMO if what tank you had in the group changed how every single other player played. Like how having a BLM lets you sleep mobs efficiently, but having single target DPS you need to AE aggro and mitigate a lot more damage.

I don't know about specific styles, but SCH seems to be better at healing WAR due to their ability to place absorb effects. Their toolkit of external cooldowns helps to offset WAR's lack of personal cooldowns. WHM's Stoneskin and Protect are also useful, but any good SCH will have those cross-classed.