Thank you SE

[KalinOrthos]

I like a lot of these changes. If it means taking a hit on Holy Spirit, I'll gladly take it to keep my huge amount of utility for the party. DRK and WAR getting some love, and now we can finally, finally put this tank accessories nightmare to bed.

But I see the reversal of stance swap penalties, and the only thing I can think is "Oh no." Because I know exactly where this is going: the community at large is going to mandate stance swapping for tanks, regardless of whether or not the players can handle it.

[eagledorf]

PLD and DRK get their defensive buff just from going into the stance, WAR need to get healed after swapping to tank stance by either spending either a GCD or oGCD cooldown from a healer to get them to the same effective HP spot as a PLD/DRK with their instant 20% dmg reduction or spend their own oGCD 1min cooldown. Just because you don't immediately see the cost doesn't mean it's not there. At most you might have a argument for going into SwO being oGCD.

...no, because making SwO oGCD would just massively shaft DRK since MP is more smoothly consumed on DRK than on PLD and the cost of the Grit spell would have a much larger impact on DRK DPS than the cost of the ShO spell on PLD. I mean, unless they also rework the MP cost for Grit to be much lower, but then why not just do it right instead of half-way?

It's more of an argument for making Defiance actually fill your HP bar when you turn it on instead of letting that one meaningless design decision 4 years ago that has almost no actual impact on play result in broken design for all tank jobs forever.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Nope, it's guaranteed spot was mostly because of the meta itself. You wanted a nin, they didn't want to put up slashing so you brought them no matter what, No longer the case. Storms path was mandatory for all progression it was just too good. No longer the case. War is just the sam or why of tanks. Zero utility but the highest personal damage like it should be.

WAR wasnt needed for path or eye.
(even more so path)

WAR was desired for being the highest DPS of the 3 tanks.
WAR was desired for being the most reliable for tank busters.
WAR came with the added benefit of eye, to raise NIN dmg.
WARs dont use path, except on progression, and people arent handling raid wide dmg well yet. But at least they have it when learning.

Even if WAR was absolute garbage at everything but DPS, savage groups are going to require WARs.
Thats just the end of the story.

WAR already out damaged the other tanks, as long as the stars aligned in EX modes.
With the way Savage is made, it will be a tiny bit easier to align the stars, and out dmg the other tanks.
They shoulodnt be adding more DPS to WAR, but instead should be making it easier to have all things go right.
(which is still going to solidify their position in savage)

[Tegernako]

The tank fixes were exactly what we needed.
Str added to accessories.
Pld did too much damage for their utility, fixed.
Drk and war didn't do enough damage, fixed.
No more loss of gauge for war on swap.
Shake it off changed.
This shit is amazing the tanks will FINALLY BE BALANCED.

I'm crying. It's everything I dreamed of. I genuinely feared nothing would change.

All they literally need to do now is give them some form of utility with shake it off and they said they were looking at it for changes. It's an amazing feeling.

WAR will be the tank that can adjust on the fly to situations again giving it that sense of fluidity that they took away.

[SyzzleSpark]

WAR will be the tank that can adjust on the fly to situations again giving it that sense of fluidity that they took away.

What are the other two in this fantasy?

[Dizzy_Derp]

Penalty removal is awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is that six less gcds before hitting inner release now?

No it's not, because warriors don't pull right now. If you were you were getting fucked over.

[Dizzy_Derp]

Maybe well luck out and WAR will be put on the GCD at least... Probably not tho...

That would be stupid af. The reason the other two are on the gcd is because wars stance doesn't reduce damage, swapping to it does nothing without a heal you still just due to whatever is gonna hit you, when the others are a 20% CD. And inner beast costs gauge so it's not even in the discussion because ib is not part of the stance itself. So unless they wanna give defiance either increased max AND full hp or innate damage reduction it should never be on the gcd.

[Dizzy_Derp]

I'm not sure why, and maybe its just me being me, but it really feels like DRK never gets more than a token mention on any LL. They just outright refuse to take any problem with the job, big or small, seriously. I guess there aren't enough of us and we don't cry loud enough.

Did you not watch the live letter? Don't act like your getting ignored that's a lie. your getting increased potencies and "additional effects" which my guess is a dot like scourge attached to something.

[ovIm]

But yeah, if 4.05 rolls around and DRK/PLD isn't at least equal to any comp including a WAR, some people at SE most definitely need to lose their jobs.

As a WAR main, I completely agree. I want to see every combination viable, preferably having different combinations best on different fights to ensure there is no "guaranteed" spot. Im sick of the stale "only this comp pls" mentality.

[Tegernako]

What are the other two in this fantasy?

This is a thread about WAR.