Quote Originally Posted by Llus View Post
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Sorry to burst your bubble but you don’t remember ARR WAR.

2.0: stacks gave 2% healing received increase
2.1: statcks gave 2% crit rate
3.0: wrath gave 2% parry, abandon gave 2% crits

And all combo moves except Heavy Swing gave stacks. It took 2.5 combos to get to 5.

Unchained required 5 stacks until they reduced it to 2 in 4.0 and now 0 since 4.01.

Stanceless average potency was 206.6/gcd (SE>BB)
Defiance average potency without unchained and infuriate was 172.5/gcd (SE>BB + IB every 5 stacks)
That’s ~18% dps reduction. Now, add the increased crit, unchained uptime and extra IB from infuriate and you mostly get 10-15% net dps reduction.

Defiance WAR was a very close to stanceless WAR in ARR.