Teach me how to WAR!

[Gandora]

Thanks, that was comprehensive! I actually read the entire thing..

I am sorry for the long post, I love my WAR & I am passionate about it so I did not know how to explain the thing to you with shorter phrase. :3 I use to mock Kitru for his wall of texts, I did not do better on this one..

I just recently finished ifrit xm with my healer and man, it was very intense on the tanks. Someday maybe I'll get there and try it out as a tank..

I personaly think its good to do that kind of event on your main job because of the stats, especialy when you have an important role such as healer or tank, but you're right to try and you have all of my /cheer here.

I feel that healers have it good cause they don't die often.

Talking about healers, the fact you level a tank now is very valuable for your main job, it will give you a different approach on the healer job. you will see things that can be annoying for a tank, situation like when the healer cast regen on you before you pull, or when they cast stoneskin while you pull, both things get the aggro back to the healer & get him killed in most case. It will improve your skills overall.

I'm now thinking of good builds for war, but probably I'd lean more no defensive as I'm going the 30 vit path.

Quite simply, start with Darklight or "Armor of Light" from CT if you can, I know that DL is ugly but it will give you more accuracy than Armor of Light. Accuracy is important for a tank, DL legs giving you 43, yours may have to be capped around 460-470 to start with.

The stats you may look into to start with are

VIT > STR
Accu > Parry > Crit > Det <-- You may need to ask other WARs around because again this is my personal choice.

I think I want to weigh vit and str equally when gearing up with slightly more leaning towards vit but getting as much str as possible.

When you start gearing iLv70-80 its the way to go. However when you go for iL90 (Myths & Allagan) you will have more flexibility (1stly because you will use Feets & head slot where DL doesn't.) The increase in VIT and STR will be slightly superior from the gears at this point, as well as the global defense. One big loss you will notice as soon as you change from iLv70 to iLv80+ is the drop in accuracy from DL pants, AF2 or Allagan doesn't matter at this point because both wont give you any accuracy.

You will hardly be able to match STR & VIT equaly because of the VIT bonus traits from MRD. Now (from a personal opinion again) If you plan to take over BC on WAR, you may need to focus on having at least 8k+ HP with Defiance on 1st (include use of food), once you reached that number of HP with enough accuracy then you can look into filling the lack of STR. Be aware tho, I think the cap of efficiency for STR (attack/parry% increase) are 405 & 445 (Can anyone confirm/give the accurate number please?)

Last thing, the weapon, if you have acces to Dual Haken go for it.

I thinks thats all I can say~ but again, don't take that for granted as it is my personal experiences, others WARs around may have different experiences to share with you and they may have better ideas/macro than me.

Anyway, if you have any other question feel free to ask and i'll glady answer.