WP Speed Run: Warrior Style

[BlossomRose]

To be honest, and I say this as both a fully geared warrior and paladin-- warriors currently don't offer me any advantages whatsoever compared to paladin. And I'm glad SE noticed, and is going to be addressing that, presumably by buffing warrior mitigation.

But until they do, the tradeoff is basically:

* Bard has to play TP song for warrior, making the BLM slightly slower.
* Healer has to focus solely on warrior, can't DPS as much.
* Warrior has less defensive cooldowns, making point 2 even worse.
* Warrior has to skip some pulls "to be safe" if he wants to stay in speedrun time limits.

By no means is it IMPOSSIBLE to use a warrior tank and kudos to those who stuck through it, it's just more optimal to use a pally right now.

[Koltik]

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You are correct in saying PLD has more / better defensive CD's, and that definitely makes the tanking part of these runs easier for them. However, we are still able to do all of the same pulls as a WAR as long as we have a competent healer. My latest video shows that.

If these pulls are risky for anyone, I'd say it's a PLD. As mentioned earlier, in that 9min WP run the PLD lost aggro twice, nearly resulting in a death to the WHM or BLM. The WHM got down to 100 HP on the first pull, even. I would not be surprised at all if a number of their runs turn from 9 to 12-15 minute runs because of aggro issues / deaths. With a WAR you can remove the risk by having a good healer, as a PLD there's not much you can do to remove aggro issues. PLD's can only do so much for AOE aggro.

Also, TP song is not required. I don't think I've ever had a BRD play TP song for me in my WP speed runs, and never really needed it either. Instead they sometimes play Ballad for healer, but still rarely.