WAR 2.1 Patch Notes

[Garnatian]

You aren't using Inner Beast to take on one autoattack before a Landslide swing, either. That would be a waste. You're using Inner Beast right before the Mountain Buster, so that you take out a significant amount of damage from the attack. Hell, you never used Inner Beast on cooldown -- you just used it after the attack instead of before.



You could just as well say the damage is 7499, and that PLD is therefore 4.16% ahead. Neither are a meaningful result. A healing bonus will not allow your tank to survive a big hit, and neither bonus is relevant to that. The more accurate comparison is that Shield Oath reduces the amount of healing required by 20% while Defiance reduces it by 16.667%. Natively, a healer has to spend 4.16% more time and MP healing. You could then include other aspects, such as blocking, self-healing, and the net effect of mitigation abilities. Again, there's a lot to it.

You'd be correct about the old IB, you'd rarely ever use it outside infuriate. However, now you use IB as often as possible now as saving Wrath stacks no longer serves any purpose, meaning you're simply wasting stacks when you're using abilities that generate them since each Wrath stack equates to some percentage of mitigation.

Now, you'd rotate between abilities like Vengeance and Infuriate for you damage mitigation.