300 DPS WAR - How are you pulling this number?

[Ehayte]

.... high tank DPS is nothing one should brag about, it is rather an accomplishment made possible by your awesome healer(s).

Aw you were so close to an awesome post.

High PLD DPS, I agree, is mostly on the healers and the group. Oh wow, you can go in Sword Oath, hit FoF when its on CD and hit Shield Swipe when its ready. However, good WAR DPS is a little trickier. This is largely a factor of their more complex rotations (not by a ton, but there are 3 and they all do different things), and the fact that they are currently to go-to off-tank, which means that a majority of the fight they are a DPS, but always have to keep tanking in the back of their mind while optimizing dps.

That means making sure you have an infuriate when needed, managing your CDs (which isn't hard, but its a thing), knowing when you can be cavalier with your zerks and when you need to save them, knowing when to be in and out of defiance, keeping uptime on SP when needed, trying to always keep up SE (esp if there is a NIN), getting in BBs when you can, keeping your fracture up without clipping it, and preferably applying it under a buff, combining cool-downs like Unchained and zerk, etc, etc.

You can be a WAR out of defiance tanking a whole fight and still have shit DPS, whereas if you are a Pally in SwOa its almost impossible to suck.