Warrior Tanking

[Kitru]

Thanks and fixed. I used Awareness vs Twin this week. I feel dumb.

It's a bit fallacious to say that no boss in Coil crits. They *can* crit, but the only attacks that NPCs (any NPC, not just bosses or NPCs in Coil) use that can score crits are their auto-attacks. Given that auto-attacks make up a very small portion of their total damage and/or risk of killing the tank, the amount that crits will affect you in Coil is negligible.

Against Twintania, some people will actually counsel you to use Awareness for Death Sentences because, while Death Sentence might not be able to crit, the auto-attacks before and after it most definitely *can*. When you're surviving an attack by less than 1-2k hp, a critical hit *could* actually kill you when a normal hit would not have. The issue that arises is whether those attacks would have crit if you'd had Awareness up, given that enemies have remarkably low crit rates.

I have actually been killed by getting spiked and then crit in coil (in both t1 from Cad and t4 from 4 stack dread; nothing the ADS uses can crit though, afaik) so I wouldn't say that it's *worthless*. Since you can't really predict when the RNG is going to decide to give you a bad time nor can you assume that it will occur at a rate in which you'll have Awareness up for it, Awareness does have severely limited value.

As such, it's *bad*, but it's not completely worthless. Just mostly worthless.

[Instrumentality]

It's a bit fallacious to say that no boss in Coil crits. They *can* crit

No.

/tenchar

[Kitru]

No.

So what are those random auto-attacks that hit me for 50% harder than normal auto-attacks count as?

[Instrumentality]

So what are those random auto-attacks that hit me for 50% harder than normal auto-attacks count as?

Nothing. They don't exist.

[LordTiberiusRex]

I have reformatted the abilities section to highlight the ability names. I don't like what Griever has done with his formatting though, as empty lines between every ability just seems like so much unneeded bloat. I've also made up some nice tables to match the ones in Griever's PLD guide

Looks more amazing every time I check it out. Nicely done, mate!

Adding in some extra stuff to pump it up a bit.

Resources (in progress atm):
So you want to tank EX Primals (Tips Section)
B.L.I.T.Z.B.A.L.L. (Mechanics and Formulas)
Getting your Relic weapon
FFXIV Database (xivdb.com)
Warrior "Macro"oni in Thread
Making Macros (Reddit)

Navigation Links to Guide:
Introduction & Change Log
Abilities
Wrath, Infuriate, & Standard Combos
Pulling & Rotations
Macros, Gear, & Stats