Uses for Holmgang

[CHunterX]

Its awesome animation.

[Gandora]

Also, it work on certain boss. below are some situations you can think of:
1) Demon wall, prevent you from being ejected.
2) Pudding @ WP, use it when the healer is targeted, avoid stress. (BRD Shadow bind work very well here too, & CD is way faster)
3) Garuda HM, when she pop the copies of herself & you offtank, if the DDs are good normaly chirada is still bound when the other one die. even better if you can bind it while its out of reach of the PT, its very pro.

Thats my personnal experience with this ability

Posted it here some days ago: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...92#post1535792


Also for info, to the WHMs looking at this thread, you can use Fluid Aura on the 2nd boss in WP, on the bees assisting demonic wall and on Chirada, it work exceptionaly well too.

Even if you assume its not your role to do so or if you think you wont have the time, it can make the difference betwin a good & a bad run so its worth trying, & the casting time is near instanly.

[Acke]

when someone does a cone attack that prevents them from changing direction I run behind them and use holmgang. gives me a 6 second stun effectively (because they only want to attack me, but it's impossible to attack when they can't turn around and autoface their target)

[saber_alter]

On a 3 min CD when it also binds you? I honestly doubt that Holmgang will be anywhere *near* useful in PvP unless it gets significantly tweaked.

*walks up to unsuspecting dragoon* holmgang! *dragoon's target gets away*

holmgang is like cover, its pretty useless most of the time, but when it works: it's pure gold.

also question: is caduceus immune to holmgang? if not you could holmgang the second caduceus when they split and keep it from cleaving the raid.

[SeraphicRadiance]

*walks up to unsuspecting dragoon* holmgang! *dragoon's target gets away*

holmgang is like cover, its pretty useless most of the time, but when it works: it's pure gold.

also question: is caduceus immune to holmgang? if not you could holmgang the second caduceus when they split and keep it from cleaving the raid.

I've noticed that if an enemy is vulnerable to slow, you can use holmgang on it. If it is immune, you cannot. Means you can hit Garuda with it and not Ifrit for example.

3 Minute CD on a skill that can also hurt you is just a joke by design though. It is barely useful even in the most perfect circumstances, and harmful in almost all others.