WP Speed Run: Warrior Style

[Koltik]

After the hotfix on October 14th, WP became much more viable for farming tomestones. This video shows how a Warrior can clear WP in 15 minutes, making it the best zone to farm tomestones. It makes the zone a bit more interesting, too.

http://youtu.be/KiU7HJlFric

Has anyone else been doing this? Do you know of a faster way to clear through some of the stickier parts of the dungeon? Share your experiences!

EDIT: 12 minutes or less version can be found here: http://youtu.be/eRD-abqneEY

[Godlafell]

There is a 10 minute 13 seconds WP run video posted with a Paladin.

Time to switch jobs, sorry breh.

10:13 WP

They've actually done it in 9:06 now. Link in the video 10:13 video description.

or, 9:06 WP

[Koltik]

There is a 10 minute 13 seconds WP run video posted with a Paladin.

Time to switch jobs, sorry breh.

I did see that, and they went pure speed-run skipping chests etc. What they did could just as easily (or more easily) be done with a warrior.

The concept in my video is the same, they just spent more time refining the run for pure speed. They also used a bind bug to de-aggro 2 mobs on the 2nd boss, which saves at least 1.5 - 2 minutes.

Regardless, the point of this video is to show other tanks how a speed-run can be achieved.

[Relics]

What they did could just as easily (or more easily) be done with a warrior.

This is such a false statement! I have both a PLD and WAR geared and was doing these runs last night. You stopped several times to allow for mobs to be killed or health lowered before moving on. As a PLD I can pull everything before the first boss to two groups have them AOE down and survive. I know my warrior would die quickly trying to do that. Running as a PLD will let you clear faster and easier.

I like playing on my WAR as it is more exciting, but in no instance does a WAR tank make things easier in it's current state!

[Koltik]

I like playing on my WAR as it is more exciting, but in no instance does a WAR tank make things easier in it's current state!

Simple question: did you skip the beetle chest on that 2-pull before first boss? That changes things drastically - a warrior could just as easily two-pull if you skip the 2nd set of beetles. I chose not to just to be on the safe side seeing as half of my party was PUG.

Regarding me saying the pulls could be done easily with a warrior: we have better AOE aggro, and the risk of losing aggro to AOE's is much lower. On that 10 minute pally run I saw the pally losing aggro on some groups, and on one pull the BLM was down to 1% HP from aggro issues.

[Squirrels]

So basically whats happened here is that somebody made an topic about SPEEDRUNNING an dungeon. and then complains that people skip optional stuff?

And the clarification why does not skip is to be "safe", thats not really speedrunning.

[Hachiko]

Regarding me saying the pulls could be done easily with a warrior: we have better AOE aggro, and the risk of losing aggro to AOE's is much lower. On that 10 minute pally run I saw the pally losing aggro on some groups, and on one pull the BLM was down to 1% HP from aggro issues.

AOE Aggro isn't really the problem. The problem, particularly with the first pull, is the fact that you have 3 tonberrys and 4 birds on you, and however many bettles are still up. AFAIK there would be no way for a WAR to do that in one pull. You would have to split it up into two. Even as a PLD I have to hallowed ground for that pull, and use all of the rest of my cooldowns on the next one.

Would love to see you do that pull entirely with a WAR, not convinced you could do it though.

[Geobryn]

but ... but ... warrior is better for low level content :P

[gigi_frana]

I did not see the movie, but IMO you wanted to name the thread "team effort clearing WP with a War tank".
Amirite?

[Alanon]

I love how this has the tone of War vs Pld when the truth is that it's more about the DD.....

Good run though! I run with a Blm and Brd (Sometime Blm goes Whm and we do 2 Brds), so we'll have to try something like this.