Endwalker Warrior Looks Great

[Ultimatecalibur]

Okay, please, enlighten us as to how holding a damage-dealing OGCD ability during raid buffs or period is DPS neutral.

I'll give you a hint: It's not. You're wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation. Like every other tank, you will use your "Gap Closer" for DPS during your opener and on cooldown throughout the fight. It has been that way for years, and it's a shame that gap closers are resigned to this fate.

And you would be part of the problem he is referring to: someone repeating info that they may not actually understand.

Holding charges is only a dps loss when you overcap on charges and do not gain a comparable damage increase from the delayed use. As long as you get one additional Melee gcd or get the gap closer under a party damage buff from properly timing/delaying gap closer use it is a gain in dps.

Proper gapcloser use when you have charges by priority:

1. Use when doing so would increase Melee uptime/decrease Melee downtime by at least one gcd. (Onslaught+Tomahawk is 250 potency vs Onslaught+Heavy Swing which is 350 potency)
2. Dumping as many charges as possible while as many party damage buffs are up without interfering with priority 1.
3. Use within 2 to 5 seconds of reaching max charges to prevent overcapping unless it would reduce the number of charges used under priority 2.
4. Dump all remaining charges if the fight is about to end before next set of party damage up buffs.

Onslaught having three charges is actually a serious benefit as the Warrior can stockpile 60s worth of gapclosers to use under damage buffs where as all other tanks can only stockpile 30s worth.