Quote Originally Posted by Tronic View Post
Inner beast, like the super useful steel cyclone, ignores the defiance damage debuff, and does 300 attack potency damage straight out.
Never noticed that. With that taken into account, you're still only managing a 3.59 increase in base potency.

Aha! So might I imply from this that you're finally warming up to my idea of having flash as a cross class skill? ^_^
No. Flash on a WAR is, as far as I'm concerned, as waste: you simply can't use it often enough thanks to the highly limited mp pool and intelligent use of Overpower (and Berserk, if you're worried about Pacification) allows you to mollify the problems with Overpower enough that it's not a major concern.

Using 1-2 Overpowers is not going to completely and utterly demolish your resource management; the costs incurred by limited usage are well within the ability of you to recover from in the enforced downtime all of the primal fights and most bosses have as part of their mechanics. It's only when you use Overpower *unwisely*, generally in the ways that are often described to make it seem like WAR has some overwhelming AoE damage/enmity advantage, that Overpower screws you over. Rather than comparing the use of Overpower to Flash over a 10-15 second time frame, compare it over a 2 minute time frame. If you use Overpower in such a way that you're still capable of attacking for that entire time frame, Flash + CoS and Overpower are going to achieve rough parity on enmity and damage.

A WAR doesn't need Flash to AoE tank effectively; it just needs to know how to use Overpower rather than spamming it freely like PLDs do with Flash.

P.S. You would be inferring my meaning or intent from a message, not implying it; if what you were inferring were true, I would have been implying it. Basically, you infer something that someone else implied.