Switching from PLD to WAR and need advice

[Kitru]

And a better pld wil beat you. End game is about burst damage.

If you want to talk burst damage, there's but one thing that needs to be said: Inner Beast. End of discussion.

[kukurumei]

If you want to talk burst damage, there's but one thing that needs to be said: Inner Beast. End of discussion.

IB is bread and butter. your point? That's nothing compared to pld side.

foresight is foresight
IB = rampart
vengeance < sentinel
nothing - HG

When the critical moments in the fight comes, a PLD has all those on rotation and the HG (not to mention self stoneskin if it's not a threat race) .A war doesn't have that luxury, Best a war can do is IB + vengeance (sub standard to a HG) but that's all we have. It must be up.

[Kitru]

foresight is foresight
IB = rampart
vengeance < sentinel
nothing - HG

So where are ToB and Holmgang? If you're going to talk about burst damage mitigation, you need to actually include everything that applies.

IB is going to be up for *every single burst event*. Rampart is not, no matter how good you are. For WAR v. PLD, you have to compare IB + (insert CD) against whatever CD PLD is going to be using.

IB + Foresight > Foresight
IB + 20% Conv > 30% Conv
IB + Vengeance > Sentinel (and Vengeance is available every 3 minutes instead of 3 and lasts 5 seconds longer)
IB + ToB > Rampart (same DR, but ToB gives you an extra 20% hp)
Holmgang < HG

There are 2 cases where a PLD beats a WAR for burst damage survival: when you have to use your uber-CD or you're layering multiple CDs on top of each other (which only applies to certain combinations). At most, you'll have the HG once per fight, and, if you have to layer multiple CDs on top of each other, you're making it so that you can't survive something later on, which is going to hurt your burst mitigation.