The Shield System

[ThugHunter]

Guard will only take up a slot on you raction bar once you equip a shield, there are two ways to move guard on you ation bar.

The Manual Way:

Do not equip your shield until you have set all your action, so if you want guard to appear in slot 3 on the firts bar, equip an action in slots 1-2 and 4 - 10 then when you equip your shield it will automatically take up the first free space on your action bar - slot 3, obviously move the slot as required.

The Automatic way:

Using Macro's is by far the most efficient way to equip actions so:

Set up you macro for each line of your action bar, again using slot 3 as the example:-

Equiping your sword put light slash in slot 1.
/ea 2 "Heavy Stab"
/equip 3 "Vintage Scutum" (equips guard automatically)
/ea 4 "Deflection"
/ea 5 "Aegis Boon II"
/ea 6 "Outmanouver"
/ea 7 "Phalanx II"
/ea 8 "War Drum"
/ea 9 "Taunt II"
/ea 10 "Provoke II"

As you can see the above macro sets 9 actions and equips my shield for me all in one go, i then have 2 other macros for the other 2 lines of actions.

[Reika]

Don't think he mentioned anything about hate control, just that using it maximizes your TP/stam most effectively. Which is true. Blowing 250tp and dealing dmg/increasing hate without using any stam, is obviously amazing. Sure phalanx II does probably 100-150 less dmg but you can fit in 4 phalanx's into 1 primary WS. Not to mention saving stam for other useful things.

Phalanx II actually does just as much damage as other weapon skills, Except Riot blade, but doesnt cost 2000tp either. It is where a good gladiator gets most of its single target damage from if he/she is tanking. 250tp, no stam, very short cooldown.