WAR DPS WiTH 150 PENTA SLAYING GEAR 800DPS

[Perzeval]

If you are MT for A4, yes, I can agree with that. If you are OT however, staying in defiance for most of the fight would be a huge damage loss, the only time I turn on defiance is when I'm grabbing a lot of balls.

[Sapphidia]

Question: has there been any hint of when higher level accessories might be added into the game?

I'm definitely planning on getting a full Penta meld set, but are the current i150 white HQ items worth it? They're clearly better than a full Asuran set of course. Should I wait if there was supposed to be better quality jewellery coming, and save my money, or do you think it's worth buying a pentameld set right now?

[Sakasa]

Question: has there been any hint of when higher level accessories might be added into the game?

I'm definitely planning on getting a full Penta meld set, but are the current i150 white HQ items worth it? They're clearly better than a full Asuran set of course. Should I wait if there was supposed to be better quality jewellery coming, and save my money, or do you think it's worth buying a pentameld set right now?

The best guess is after the release of alex savage 2 with i160 accessories where it might be somewhat useful but greatly over powered by the main stats from drops from alex normal 2.

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best guess seems a bit more opinionated then I meant it to be. The development cylce from 1 > 2 > 3 coil placed the accessories on pre release of the the next turn and they were 10 ilvl behind current and 20 ilvl behind highest tier but left side gear predated the pattern. So the assumption from their statements is shifting it back 20ilvl be hind current and 30ilvl behind highest tier. With crafted left side as a model being i160 current tier 180 highest tier 190 then the jump to savage.

[Ditto]

the only time I turn on defiance is when I'm grabbing a lot of balls.

HEH

But yes he's right, as OT in A4 you should almost never be in your tank stance. You could even grab balls while not in your tank stance and be fine really, throw a CD up and just faceplant a few of them. As a War, Equi in full STR accessories should be able to heal you for a crazy stupid amount, so you should be able to hit like 2 balls, Equi, hit another 1 or 2 before you actually need the healer. Though you'd need Defiance for that anyway so may as well.

[Ipkonfig]

If were talking dummy parses I do more than that as WAR without all the penta melded crap, and more as DRK, and maintain the same off-tank DPS as DRK/WAR in all of Alex, well I MT 4 as DRK because DRK is the better tank, the only problem with DRK is TP so I go for WAR only because of that, but their damage is great, and parsing programs currently don't even parse them correctly and they still keep up.

I love the "If not killed" for Floor 3, how are you dying? Trying to tank in Deliverance and getting smoked during the swap phase?

There is already plenty of evidence all over twitch/youtube of all three tanks doing equal off tank DPS. The nice thing about Warrior is the unlimited single target TP, which will probably get nerfed since I doubt you're meant to have unlimited resources, kind of defeats the purpose of having resources.

[Jayjohn]

Cool my 800 dps DRK without slashing debuff says hi to your 800 dps WAR

[SpookyGhost]

Cool my 800 dps DRK without slashing debuff says hi to your 800 dps WAR

That in i150 pentamelds as well?

[Jayjohn]

That in i150 pentamelds as well?

180 slaying accessories

[Dhex]

Seems rather pointless.

[tremor24]

180 slaying accessories

Then you are clearly supporting the OP's point. A DRK/PLD can not easily out dps a War (with less strength and more survive-ability), and this is an additional supporting example that it is a better off tank than either of the others. This point is already widely accepted.