Thread: WAR BiS list (2.1)

Originally Posted by Zell

Am I wrong in thinking that the difference between full AF+1, Full Allagan, and everything in between is only a trivial difference? All the gear has identical strength/vitality, our primary stats. The only thing is that you should either be close or have accuracy cap. Everything else is minutia.

Can someone honestly say that one i85 tank is SIGNIFICANTLY better than another i85 tank in a completley different mixed and matchd gear set?


I think that there are a million things that could cause you to wipe in turn 4 or 5, and not having BiS is not one of them.

My 2 cents.

I will not argue that a pld or war with max available parry will be massively superior to a similar eHP tank without similar parry, but.. its not quite so trivial. This is just like a dps min/maxing or a sch going full crit build. There is no quantifiable "welp, this +12 crit on my sch build saved the run" or "this increased chance to parry saved us" because those fail/pass moments are nearly invisible. But think of all the times you have bottomed out at quite low hp, been saved by a last moment crit cure before a big attack, parried -24% and lived with 300. All min maxing does is give you more of those narrow survival moments.

That said, as paladin, while I continue to drive my parry higher and higher, my total parry + block rate is quite high now, to the point that between cool downs and parry and block I take nearly no full damage attacks. I do think the gap opens up once everyone involved is at or near i90. As individual stats begin to be pushed quite high, they become more tangible.

Also, given the magnitude of the damage involved in turn 5, even a few more parries really could make the fight for a progression group. Afterall, parry is stronger than rampart or inner beast, and its basically a free use of those cool downs either on their own or on top of what ever cd you used.