Full STR WAR is nothing to write off.

[whiskeybravo]

That's the thing. That 1,300 damage hit on Inner Beast just healed the guy who did it for 3,900hp. About half his health. That is why STR gearing is a great idea on WAR and only an OK idea for a PLD... maybe... if you have enough HP.

Remember when Yoshi said that people were playing WAR wrong? THIS is what he meant. People keep trying to play the WAR like a PLD and are stacking huge amounts of HP at the expense of making their Inner Beasts worthless. 1200-2000hp healed every 20 seconds is a drop in the ocean. 2,000 to 4200 up to 4 times a minute though? Now we're talking. Interestingly enough, Storm's Path actually puts up some decent numbers when you have 450+ STR as well.

More strength not only gives you bigger heals, but also can add around 2% physical mitigation as well.

But it's too late now

I sort of started to wonder if war was supposed to be MT the whole time with pld using cover when needed. Defiance being used to cover the difference in str/vit. The 2min timer on Cover though, couldn't use it all the time. But if full str war could recover 30-50% of hp back by using IB regularly, I don't know, is more on par with pld's mitigation?