Warrior Tanks: Maximizing DPS Output

[SeraviEdalborez]

I do a ton of EX Primals. My FC sells EX Primal carries (7-man) for gil. I help out my less-experienced friends with their weekly clears. I join PF groups to help out friends. These are all sub-optimal conditions, as opposed to 8 fully geared and experienced veterans. I want to completely minimize wipes with customers. I want to give myself the best possible chance of carrying weaker parties.

I've had situations where the other tank accidentally died in EX Titan and I had to tank 4-5 stacks of Mountain Buster. I'm not sure if I'd be able to do that in i90 STR gear and 30 STR attributes. I've had situations where too much DPS died and we won by the skin of our teeth, and there was no room to compromise my damage output.

If you're going to cite non-ideal circumstances, then this is kind of a dead-end. If you don't trust your DPS to live, your co-tank to live, or your healers to heal then you should be using your idiot-proof full VIT set instead of trying to hybridize OR go all-out. Otherwise it's a weighed risk. Win security vs damage output is apples vs pizzas.

For the underlined: This shouldn't be an issue. I'm going to throw out an old argument: if your group needs higher tank damage to clear, someone is failing at their job whether that be the DPS at their rotations or everyone at living. For a faster clear? Sure, absolutely.

As an aside, if those wipe conditions are happening when selling primals that's pretty silly on the part of your party.

For the record I'm the SCH in Cage's static. For most fights except Ifrit EX and Turn 5 I'm right there with him going all-out on Cleric damage. Still have no troubles keeping him and the rest of our party up. Very ideal conditions, I'll admit.