Switching from PLD to WAR and need advice

[kukurumei]

You must not run with any *good* WARs. I'm perfectly capable of doing everything you listed there and, barring strats that absolutely *require* HG (and very few strats *require* HG; they simply do well with it), I generally do them *better* than PLDs. WAR is all about using the tools you've got actively whereas PLD is more about holding on to them until they're absolutely required. The only time you're going to see a WAR get outperformed by a PLD is when that WAR is an idiot who tries to play it like it's a PLD (e.g. "ration Vengeance to a nearly HG level"; it's on a 2 min CD so that's just dumb).

And a better pld wil beat you. End game is about burst damage. It's not whether you're vengence 1k attacks or 4k attack or even 5k attacks. It's when you get that "one shot" attack that wipes pt.

And yes ration your vengeance where necessary because you need it when you need it, No "I got nothing". A pld can say "I've got nothing" HG. A war can not say "I have nothing". There are loads of times you will need that vengeance during the fight. If the fight goes faster or slower and your vengeance is not up, well that sucks.

In most hard content there are "critical times your vengeance should be up" they are very usually also the time "a HG should be up".