Making WAR More Diverse/Fun Again

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As I'm pretty sure has already been said, WAR gets Defiance as a tank stance and has its DPS "stance" as its normal state; PLD has explicit stances for both and an inferior normal state. Hell, it's why Defiance has a bigger damage debuff than Shield Oath does: a stanceless WAR is going to deal more damage than a stanceless PLD so they *have* to debuff WAR more.

I thought it was because Maim.. Effectively makes Defiance penalty only 5%. Fight of Flight is a good offensive buff, but can't be kept up 100% of the time.

Random musings:

I don't understand exactly how the numbers are affected. Sword Oath increases auto-attack by 50, so that brings Curtana Zenith to around 85. Bravura auto-attack is 52 natively, so could you say that Maim would increase Auto-attack potency by 10? (20% of 52 is around 10).. Plus the 20% to weaponskill attacks?