WAR tank pure DPS and no defiance in expert run story.

[Sleigh]

I'll Sword Oath bosses in dungeons, but generally will leave Defiance on unless I'm with an Embrace force-spamming SCH. The DPS difference between no Defiance and Defiance isn't high enough to make your healer waste multiple extra GCDs of healing when that can be precious healer DPS, and isn't worth losing the comfort zone IMO. No Defiance WAR isn't particularly tanky without CDs, and WAR needs most of the effective ones (Conv, Vengeance) for upcoming big pulls more so than to just blow for a little extra no Defiance time. Usually if I do drop Defiance on a boss it's within the last 20% or so when no more healing will be needed anyway.

If a healer's not DPSing though, Defiance is going off as soon as aggro is established. Gonna put the healer to work if they're being lazy.

[Lyzern]

I'm leveling a tank at the moment and at first I thought this post was awesome and that maybe one day I could do it too. But then, I thought about my 2 healer jobs and how much damage I can pull off with Holy and SCH's poisons and now I'm left wondering which would be the better way:

To have your tank resist more damage and spam Holy

Or

To have your tank deal more damage and spam Cure

Personally, 700+ AoE damage seems like a lot more damage than what a tank could pull off (considering they already do damage, so they'd have to do 700 MORE damage than they already do), but I'm only lv. 25 on my warrior, so I can't judge that. Any main tanks who can give their insight on this?

[Synestr]

Inner Beasts for 1800+, or there abouts. Those are fun to see. I see more "numbers" on my WAR than I do my PLD though. That is how it should be though IMO. My PLD can mitigate the deft outta things, and my WAR can knock the poo out of them.

However WHM Holy spam, with PoM and SoS up, is noice on groups/big packs. Bene the tank when he gets low and keep spammin that Holy.