Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
When a damage buff has more than 30% uptime, then it's not really burst. Every time you step off the boss you're falling further behind. That's also the reason why as players get better and overall uptime improves, these jobs have more to show for it.

Burst focused jobs give you flexibility on when you want to unload your damage. Remember O5S? There have to be checks and balances.

When tank jobs are so close together in dps, there's very little wiggle room to adjust any of this such that burst focused jobs are better than everyone else on select fights. Bear in mind also that DRK is also burst-focused at present, and has less to show for it at present than WAR does.
Wow 1 example in the last 24 raids lol. Nevermind the fact it was an utter waste.

My only argument was that shield boy's damage was too high imo, simply because of there no-longer-existent "protector" aesthetic. And it wasn't that burst focused jobs should be best in any given fight, but that there are none (or very few) where a burst job gets to shine. Burst vs Sustain does not matter because as each of you have pointed out it can (and has been) easily be skewed too much in either direction by the devs.

To be frank, if I'm not allowed to hold PLD to a different standard based on past implementations, than neither should anyone be bringing up "but WAR was King" reasons for why they no longer are.

Quote Originally Posted by FallenWings View Post
If anyone needs to know why WAR is not even doing more damage with all the crit stacking and RNG fiesta of top parsing then just look at your beloved auto-dcrits.

Auto dcritting is a horrible mechanic because it caps out WARs damage. Inner Chaos is not really a 920 pot move that can auto crit. It is really a 1840 pot move that *cannot* crit. The reason that this distinction matters is because every other tanks potency is balanced with WARs Auto Crit in mind; but they can all dcrit. It's why DRK can more often surpass WAR in the full fledged opener. It's why Inner Chaos is not really the strongest single hit move; Confiteor is when it Dcrits(2400 stinking potency).
That's too bad, it almost sounds like you're saying that other attacks need to get nerfed or WAR's need to get buffed.