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    Player Fersaken's Avatar
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    Kainz Highwind
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    Gladiator Lv 60
    Paladins rock at aoe threat, You can flash like 20 times straight to hold agro and can continue holding threat with fast blade, riot blade combo followed by flash. The snap agro from the first 20 flashes you do will set you far ahead of everyone else, which gives you time to get mana back through a combo. On a warrior your aoe threat, though people say its good, is not sustainable, unless there is something I don't know about it. But, in theory you can cast flash 4-5 times, then you can over power until you are out of tp. After that you are waiting for tp to regen or you are swapping to a single target / tab rotation which kind of sucks.
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    KittenJitsu's Avatar
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    Risue Daito
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    Behemoth
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    Summoner Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Fersaken View Post
    Paladins rock at aoe threat, You can flash like 20 times straight to hold agro and can continue holding threat with fast blade, riot blade combo followed by flash. The snap agro from the first 20 flashes you do will set you far ahead of everyone else, which gives you time to get mana back through a combo. On a warrior your aoe threat, though people say its good, is not sustainable, unless there is something I don't know about it. But, in theory you can cast flash 4-5 times, then you can over power until you are out of tp. After that you are waiting for tp to regen or you are swapping to a single target / tab rotation which kind of sucks.
    I fully heartily disagree. A wars overpower is very strong and can easily hold threat compared to flash. Flash alone cannot hold agro. I've tried spamming flash. I lose agro all the time. I have to cycle through mobs in order to hold it. Usually small weak trash doesn't matter, but bigger mobs can be troublesome.
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    Kitru Kitera
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    Cactuar
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    Marauder Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by KittenJitsu View Post
    I fully heartily disagree. A wars overpower is very strong and can easily hold threat compared to flash. Flash alone cannot hold agro. I've tried spamming flash. I lose agro all the time. I have to cycle through mobs in order to hold it. Usually small weak trash doesn't matter, but bigger mobs can be troublesome.
    His point was that WAR AoE enmity generation is powerful but not even remotely close to sustainable. Overpower will plow through your TP like no one's business. You'll have that much needed enmity cushion while you're waiting for your TP to come back but you're also going to have to deal with likely loss of your Wrath stacks and Maim.

    PLD AoE enmity generation is *much* more reliable over the long term than a WAR's, not to mention easier to use. Yes, a PLD will have to spam the living hell out of Flash and CoS to keep aggro on targets getting AoEd down, but it's not like they don't have *enough*. Flash until I'm out of MP and FB>Riot>Flash from that point on is exactly what I do in WP speed runs and I don't have any issues keep enmity off of people.
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    Risue Daito
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
    His point was that WAR AoE enmity generation is powerful but not even remotely close to sustainable. Overpower will plow through your TP like no one's business. You'll have that much needed enmity cushion while you're waiting for your TP to come back but you're also going to have to deal with likely loss of your Wrath stacks and Maim.

    PLD AoE enmity generation is *much* more reliable over the long term than a WAR's, not to mention easier to use. Yes, a PLD will have to spam the living hell out of Flash and CoS to keep aggro on targets getting AoEd down, but it's not like they don't have *enough*. Flash until I'm out of MP and FB>Riot>Flash from that point on is exactly what I do in WP speed runs and I don't have any issues keep enmity off of people.
    I would have to disagree again. Leveling a war now I still find it much easier to maintain AoE agree over my paladin. You can cross skill flash on the war. Cast flash when pacified from beserk and single target combo after a couple of overpowers. Rinse and repeat. Overpower x3 -> Main combo -> Overpower x3 (throw in beserk whenever you want). You'll regain some tp during pacification and can cast flash while waiting.

    Super super easy to "maintain" agro.
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    Last edited by KittenJitsu; 11-13-2013 at 03:07 AM.

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    Supply Demand
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    Adamantoise
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    Quote Originally Posted by KittenJitsu View Post
    Leveling a war ......
    I hate to be "this guy", and I hate to agree with Kitru even more, but this discussion is centric to end game. Of course you are going to be able to hold AE aggro over level 38s killing 3 mobs at a time. However, it doesn't stack up in WP AE speed runs, etc.

    Your thoughts are valid to the situation you are describing, but that is not the discussion taking place here.
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    Cerulean Knight
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    Ragnarok
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ehayte View Post
    I hate to be "this guy", and I hate to agree with Kitru even more, but this discussion is centric to end game.
    I do hate it as well.. xD but yes in endgame its not the same, especialy when you find yourself in a party of ppl with Relic/Relic +1, somes of them might be rater impatient, and when you get a MNK who combo for 600/800+ dmg, or a BLM who do his rotation perfectly to unload 1600-2k+ damages (I saw it O.o) your overpower make you come out of breath very fast.

    For my own part, I really hope SE will give us somes Raging rush/King Justice or rampage" because yes, the MRD NPC made me sign up for devastation and carnage...
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    Last edited by Gandora; 11-14-2013 at 12:32 AM.

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    Kitru Kitera
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    Quote Originally Posted by KittenJitsu View Post
    Super super easy to "maintain" agro.
    And you're still ignoring the whole "Overpower is super expensive, Flash is basically free". Both of them can keep AoE enmity without much effort. Overpower generates more enmity per use such that, if you're actually catching everything in it, it's easier to do because you're frontloading, but Overpower itself requires more skill to use because you can't just spam it like crazy without destroying your TP (and, btw, you only recover 100 TP over the Pacification from Berserk). It's like comparing Flare to Blizz II. They both do the job of AoE damage, but one can be spammed infinitely while the other does more damage but requires you actually play intelligently and/or stop casting for a certain time frame to recover from it.
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