Quote Originally Posted by Marxam View Post
DRK has higher burst in EW than all the other tanks so saying WAR has burst (or any other tank) is redundant. Traditionally the reason you would have a burst is because your cds don't line up with party raid buffs so you needed stronger than usual cds to compensate for that. However, in EW they lined up raid cds to the 60/120 timers so all jobs have a burst now that fits in a window so they don't need to be a strong anymore.

They obviously balance the fact that war can 100% CDH with the other tanks because the other tanks have higher potency base BUT, they can exceed WAR when they slot in DH materia. That's where the problem is. DH isn't even really that good as the damage is highly variable but in the current "damage > everything else" meta that bit of extra does add up over a fight.

The only good thing I think we can all agree on that 100% CDH does, is crit heals during BW/NF, which is really nice. It's like WAR has a one min (2 charge) SCH recitation which is helpful in most cases. It's probably the one reason I'm still on the fence about the 100% CDH. Honestly I would like to see them first; make DH a DPS exclusive stat, and make use of Tenacity for tanks. Then balance the tanks around that fact that WAR is the only one with CDH by increasing potency of their gcd/ogcds to be on par. If after all that, 100% CDH is still an issue for WAR players, then I would have to say its time to get rid of that 100% CDH.
You can’t compare EW DRK to SB WAR, it had a 200 potency average combo, upheaval and nothing else outside its burst window which was just 6 500 potency fell cleaves back to back. The massive difference in potency between fell cleave and everything else a WAR could do meant that if those fell cleaves weren’t direct crits you were losing a massive portion of your damage dealt due to pure RNG (not to mention that your crit rate was tied to how much beast gauge you had left). That is why people complained that WAR was too reliant on spike damage and lead to the change of guaranteed direct crits.

Since then WAR has levelled out its dps the same as every other tank which is why the people who were complaining about SB WAR are now complaining about the guaranteed direct crits because the job is no longer reliant on that spike so that change is now just gimping their burst. They want the same thing they’ve always wanted. WAR to be able to deal consistent damage.