WAR and Wrath: Important Mechanics Discussed.

[Giantbane]

We don't know what changes are coming, but WAR won't be changed to be like PLD. I'm not expecting something like Hallowed Ground, Rampart, or Sentinel (thought it could happen). I think they want to keep WAR as a self heal, damage heavy tank so I believe that they may lessen or completely eliminate the damage nerf of Defiance. And change that to a flat heal buff that removes the cost of using Inner Beast while enhancing the efficiency of Bloodbath.

Meh, but we could guess all day. There's at least 7 changes coming.

I doubt that. Removing the defiance penalty isn't going to do much to help us survive like a PLD. And they specifically stated that WAR not being able to survive like a PLD in BC was a problem.

Since they also specifically mentioned that working with your healers so you save IB if heals are incoming is too difficult, I'm guessing they're going to start by moving the wrath +heal bonus straight onto defiance in order to simplify this.

[rexie]

Very few posts were on-topic.. I hope people will try to do so ^^;

From my experimentation so far, I find the use of IB frequently is better than stacking wrath. I'm confident of this result 100% on non-coil content, as there is no way I'll be healed THAT to justify stacking wrath + 300-potency DMG without penalty is too sweet to disregard.

Now on coil, I can also confirm even with full-VIT attributes (I had full STR before but changed to see how I fair), my non-crit IB is on average ~1400 (I do anywhere from 1300-1800 non-crit with MAIM & SE up). easily crit to 2k-2.8k on snake boss with berserk up.

So:
1[CODE]) A healer has to be healing me over 13k at least in 5 GCD which isn't normally the case.
2) Many times especially with 2 or 3 stacks on boss, my HP drops to 2-3k which is quite risky, so popping IB helps quite a bit making sure I don't die.

I'm still saving up DL to buy full-STR acc to experiment.

Thanks for this thread OP!

[Mishini_Dracoto]

So:
1[CODE]) A healer has to be healing me over 13k at least in 5 GCD which isn't normally the case.

Sorry, I don't understand where the figure 13K came from. I haven't read the entire thread because it fell into flame wars, then I found your post @ the end which *seems* intellectual lol. did you mean 1300 over 5 GCD? Which does actually seem reasonable?

I mean, the OP, If I'm still looking at the right thread, quoted a translation from Yoshi-P, so, I'm not really sure why/how the flame WAR started. Obviously there was truth to it. . .

[PessimiStick]

Sorry, I don't understand where the figure 13K came from. I haven't read the entire thread because it fell into flame wars, then I found your post @ the end which *seems* intellectual lol. did you mean 1300 over 5 GCD? Which does actually seem reasonable?

I mean, the OP, If I'm still looking at the right thread, quoted a translation from Yoshi-P, so, I'm not really sure why/how the flame WAR started. Obviously there was truth to it. . .

Presumably he's comparing his IB against the bonus to the healer from 5 Wrath stacks.

[rexie]

As PessimiStick mentioned, I'm comparing IB with bonus to heals from a healer with 5 Wrath stacks.
i.e. I can heal myself at worst 1300 HP every 5 GCD (most of the time more).
Wrath buff is 15%, so a healer has to heal me over 10k within 5 GCD period to outperform IB.

As I mentioned, in pre-Coil content, that is just not going to happen + DMG from IB is really excellent (300 pot without penalty vs. 270 pot with -25% is a big difference) + healers can actually have use for their MP and DD which speeds up any run rather than overcure you needlessly.
On coil, it is a different story; IMO it is all situational, but I personally find that using it as it pops is helping me survive better than just keeping it.

I need more testing and data to validate such claim, but I'm just sharing my personal experience ^^

[Hachiko]

As PessimiStick mentioned, I'm comparing IB with bonus to heals from a healer with 5 Wrath stacks.
i.e. I can heal myself at worst 1300 HP every 5 GCD (most of the time more).
Wrath buff is 15%, so a healer has to heal me over 10k within 5 GCD period to outperform IB.

You will never, ever, IB every 5 GCD's. At best you get to IB every 8, but more realistically it's 9 or higher.

That is a lot of extra time for heals to roll in, really.

But you also only need less than that, it's more like 9% of a healing deficit, so if 9% of the heals over 20 seconds is > 1300 you shouldn't use IB.

In general whenever you're in a situation in which you can be solo-healed it's worth it to use IB whenever you can fully benefit from the heal and you don't have any over-healing.

[Telepathic]

You will never, ever, IB every 5 GCD's. At best you get to IB every 8, but more realistically it's 9 or higher.

I just want to point out that if you really are spamming IB, you can average an IB every 6.1 GCD's for about 3.5 minutes. After that it falls to about every 6.33 GCD's. Not saying you should spam IB and obviously you will get a ton of overhealing.

If you start counting GCD's with the first IB and not at zero Wrath then you will be at 5.4 GCD's/IB after 3.5 minutes and you will slowly start converging to 6.33 GCD's/IB.

Also you can average 4 IB/minute for 3.5 minutes. After that you converge on 3.8 IB/min.

[Ruminate]

It doesn't matter how many IBs you can get per minute. Incoming damage is not a straight line. It has peaks and valleys. If you use IB immediately everytime it lights up, there is a very high chance either you or the healer will overheal, thus; you're using up 5 wrath stacks for 0 gain.

[rexie]

You will never, ever, IB every 5 GCD's.

It is not at-best, it should be most of the time @ 8 and @7-6, depending on the situation, not counting IF.

*bunch of statistics*

Very interesting! Do you mind sharing the math behinds it and why did you pick 3.5 minutes, or was it just easy to calculate?

there is a very high chance either you or the healer will overheal, thus; you're using up 5 wrath stacks for 0 gain.

these situations happen, just wait for 1-2 GCD, pop Fracture and then by that time my HP might dip by 1k, in which IB wouldn't be overcuring.

You are right with PUG setup chances are you'll be stuck with mediocre healers who have to top your HP . I'm discussing non-coil content.

The decent healers I play with don't even bother curing me until my HP drops below 2k on single-targets, 3k on multiple (I found these #s the safe margins).

[HiirNoivl]

y; In regards to Wrath and Inner Beast, right now lots of players are using Inner Beast right after taking a big damage to heal him/herself
y; but when you stack Wrath you can get up to maximum 15% heal bonus, so right after taking a big hit don’t go straight into self heal but wait for the heal from the healers first.
y; They will heal you once they notice your HP is down.
y; During Wrath you get different types of bonuses, Paladins sure have high vitality and hit points but comparing the damage they take vs amount of heal taken from outside is balanced
y; However this was balanced with Wrath in mind, so it’s really hard here.
y; When you have Wrath on it’s much better to be receiving heals, and after receiving the heals
y; if you use Inner Beast the Wrath status is removed, all the buff is removed so you’ll need to bring it back up.
y; So you first put in your first attack from the combo, then use Inner Beast, then continue onto the combo to quickly gain back Wrath
y; Since Inner Beast is an ability, it does not break the combo
f; Yes
y; Doing that will get your Wrath back right away
y; Honestly, going through this pattern is pretty hard. I know there are people doing this
y; But Warriors were structured this way and as a healer, after the Warrior uses inner beast
y; they won’t heal as much, if it’s after inner beast and I think this is the part where people think
y; that Warriors are softer. There are many things involved here.
y; So until 2.1 I want the players to learn how to rotate through the Wrath and in 2.1 since we think that this is a bit too hard we’ll be making adjustments

So basically: Let's say I'm after the heart phase on Titan. I have Wrath V when I get hit by Mountain Buster, get healed up, use Inner Beast to heal off the minor damage from his auto-attack, then use the interval afterward to build up Wrath V for the next Mountain Buster and that's how it's supposed to work.

Inner Beast was not meant to mitigate the large damage.

But what I don't understand is why they thought this would make sense in Caduceus, where he hits you for half your HP with a HoodSwing in no predictable pattern. Sure, you can still mitigate that with Wrath V heal buff, but when would you know it was okay to drop Wrath V?

All I know is in Caduceus, you NEVER use Inner Beast before the split. Evar. :O

Then there seems to be a misunderstanding in the explanation about Building Wrath.

Yoshi wants you to use Heavy Swing > Inner Beast > Maim > Storms Eye Blah blah blah blah

But you never get your "Wrath back right away" with combos after using it. You're back to 0. You need at least 6 seconds, during which 6 seconds, Caduceus will eat your face. If you Combo During Wrath V it's not like you get up to Wrath IX use Inner Beast Mid Combo and get Wrath V on your next hit. Seriously Mr. P, you are my dawg but... what the....?