WAR Openers (MT/OT)

[pandabearcat]

HS -> Maim -> [Brutal] -> Eye -> [Pot] -> HS -> [IR + Berserk] -> ??FC -> [Infuriate] -> FC -> [RI] -> Maim -> Eye -> HS -> Maim -> [Brutal] -> Eye -> Fracture -> FC -> Pacified

You have 3 abandon here, how are you getting to 5?

Furthermore, even MT you can easily do something like this and not worry about mitigation:

HS > Maim > Eye > HS > SS + [Pot] > BB + [Deliverance] > HS + [Berserk+IR] > FC + [Infuriate] > FC + [Raw Intuition] > 5x combo > FC

[Phoenicia]

HS -> Maim -> [Brutal] -> Eye -> [Pot] -> HS -> [IR + Berserk] -> ??FC -> [Infuriate] -> FC -> [RI] -> Maim -> Eye -> HS -> Maim -> [Brutal] -> Eye -> Fracture -> FC -> Pacified

You have 3 abandon here, how are you getting to 5?

Furthermore, even MT you can easily do something like this and not worry about mitigation:

HS > Maim > Eye > HS > SS + [Pot] > BB + [Deliverance] > HS + [Berserk+IR] > FC + [Infuriate] > FC + [Raw Intuition] > 5x combo > FC

In the first opener, he infuriated before and extended with RI or vengeance.

On the second, he would use Vengeance + RI before pull. In both cases, he gets 5 stacks.

Also, as MT, you WANT to have Unchained thrown there before you build up and go into deliverance.

[SpookyGhost]

My cotank and I actually deliberated about this at length, and we came up with the two best options, depending on how many GCDs you have free time for(1 wins again at something silly like 27 GCDs):

Neither of these actually work. If you start with Infuriate, and then extend at 1s with RI, then wait until the last possible moment to HS, RI will still be 20s away from being up @ the times you've used it here. The opening itself with the Vengeance extension works fine, but the following combos don't and you'll need an extra GCD or two to get to the FC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGWRO2EKtQ

This is basically the 2nd opener I posted but yeah you want to use Fracture while you've still got 5 stacks available.

HS > Maim > Eye > HS > SS + [Pot] > BB + [Deliverance] > HS + [Berserk+IR] > FC + [Infuriate] > FC + [Raw Intuition] > 5x combo > FC

This doesn't work without a NIN, and in that case you can just start in Deliverance anyway. I'm also not sure if 6 GCDs of 25% less damage is worth the trade off of 1 extra FC.