Switching from PLD to WAR and need advice

[kukurumei]

If you knew anything about my philosophy concerning the use of Infuriate or even what you should do at the start of a fight, you would realize that I would never start with Infuriate unless I required Steel Cyclone for it (t4 and t5-OT are the only occasions I ever do this).

Depends depends. Infurate + unchained (+ berserk) at the start of the fight gives you an enormous amount of hate. This is so that you can rotate into storms path faster.

Usually you want to be 2 BB combos ahead of a path-BB combo and only when it becomes more or less solid do you want to go to storms eye for anything hard, but if you know the content, the extra hate spike with infuriate-unchain will alow you to bypass that and go directly into storms path or storms path sooner.

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

Theory crafting doesn't make it anything but unrealistic. ToB might as well be placebo (since topping a war off with thrill defeats the purpose of needing to hold the fort with well timed vengence) and Holmgang is unreliable at best for all for those situations.

Like a pld adding in convenance and shield, etc CDs. placebo.

There's a total and unarguable reason the PLD takes the lead in those situations. Vengence is the best substitute for anything a pld should be doing, but somehow the war ends up doing.

Almost every extreme, coil, and other stuff, there will be 1-3 situations that are "risky" and rationing vengeance for those is bread and butter. Pld have double the chances since they can stack rampart and sentinel, on top of HG. So they have many more options.

Wars have much less options so they only have the option given to them "It better be up".