Encountered this interesting team in 24 man secure today.

[Atreus]

Does the picture not suggest they swapped jobs? Probably between healer and tank throughout and finishing on a mass tank offensive.

Nah that's Blubbers' team. They go all WAR for the shiggles occasionally since Frontline's kinda lame now. No job swapping involved. You can ramp up a ton of healing through Bloodbath, Inner Beast, Thrill of Battle, and all those coordinated Thrill of Wars (the PvP skill for MRD/WAR). It's pretty hysterical to see haha

[Blubbers]

Nah that's Blubbers' team. They go all WAR for the shiggles...

Yep, it was us!

We got the idea a few months ago when we say xenosys's 8-warrior man mode titan ex video. We wanted to use 8 warriors in frontlines, but this was back in the 72-man secure days. We were pretty confident we could do well, but it didn't feel as legit if the other people on our team were not all warriors. Anyone looking on might think we just got carried by our other group. Also 72-man secure was awesome and just playing normally was a rush.

With patch 2.5, 72-man secure days were over and my group was a lot less interested in slaughter. Now that secure games were always 24-man, we decided it was time to bust out the warriors. Half our group only leveled up warrior just to use for this. The first time we tried it out we played it super safe and over half of us had no idea how to even play warrior. It was basically the most fun thing we've ever done in this game.

Imagine you're the other team and you see 8 warriors all wearing the same yellow uniform with the mistbeard mask charging towards you. What do you do? Who do you attack? "Attack the warrior" - yeah sure which one, "the yellow one with the mistbeard mask" - THEY ALL HAVE THAT MASK! Warrior has some pretty strong burst if you spec them correctly and with 8 holmgangs that you can roatate, once you pick a target it's going to be extremely difficult for them to get away. We've had times where we've holmganged the same guy like 3 times and it's hilarious to watch them purify the first one and then just get whooped.

For healing it's just as Atreus said, between thrill of battle, inner beast, storms path, bloodbath, and second wind + ALL your defensive cooldowns, you're not going down easily. The key though is your pvp move thrill of war which recovers 25% hp for the entire party. With 8 warriors rotating this, it's a free 200% healing instantly off-cooldown. We usually average 30-50k healing from this as long as people remember to just hit all the buttons.

We do this for fun, so to get the most out of it we try to stay engaged in combat as much as possible the entire game. We usually just jump from team to team depending who's winning and try to just get as much action in the entire game as possible. Node is actually hilarious when you have 8 warriors dpsing. Even without an LB that's 8 people putting out some good damage. It's almost impossible to get LB2 in 24-man secure, so if a team uses a mage LB it's almost always an LB1 and we can just eat it for breakfast and pop a thrill of war afterwards to heal to full. The first time we did this and got the node, we literally started laughing out loud as we didn't think it would be possible, but it definitely is.

If you see the picture above, we actually only had 7 in there plus a random. We've queued as 7 a few times when we couldn't get an 8th, and we've gotten really luck and each time the last person has always been on-board and has enthusiastically swapped to warrior or paladin depending on what they had.

We've only done this in secure because by design, you mostly have 1-1.5 minute encounters which is where warriors really thrive. We might try slaughter sometime, but it's a mode where you're engaged for 10 mins straight, it's of 72-man, and you make yourself a huge target to both groups when they see the yellow mistbeard team of 8 warriors up there.

In terms of effectiveness, this strategy really only works when you have a co-ordinated group. If we were to run into a premade in secure, I have no doubt we would get destroyed. The entire reason we do it is because it's hilarious and it makes each game a bit more challenging.

Our FC-mate Brae Afference has been working on making a video using footage from our warrior shenanigans. We've got footage from about 15 games so far, I think at this point he just needs to start editing the footage. If you guys are interested, definitely say something here and maybe it will help motivate him to keep going!

Edit: Here's a quick teaser Brae made earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RevkVsa3_nA

[ZeusK]

Hey Blubber, I was maelstrom in one of your matches with this setup and I hate you. My team panicked and didn't know what to do. We could have easily taken your OP but tunnel vision happened. I demotivate you from bringing shame to the storm.

[Buff_Archer]

Very clever, using the fact that a team would have to get into melee range and play to the team's strengths to recap the flag, and as for an opposing party picking off people one at a time from a ranged perspective, they're probably not going to burst people down one at a time effectively since they'd be dividing their attacks unless it's a team of good ransoms where people either mark targets or follow others' marks. I'd say it was sporting of you to go with this approach and not throw in 1 WHM or SCH to be able to raise/regen people and such.

I was thinking how I'd counter such a team.... I think I'd have a BLM or SMN bind them and get as many as possible to use Purify... mark one target and put every Summoner/Scholar's set of DOT's on that one target, sleep the crowd, and bane the dot's to the slept ones right after. Since bane doesn't wake slept targets, having 6-9 DOT's chewing away at them while slept would make the job of bursting them down individually less work. But with any randomly composed team you wouldn't have them slept 5 seconds before people started attacking individuals and waking them.

[Saiyakupo]

I KNOWWW THOSE GUYYYSSSSSS. That's Blubbers' group! They have a video about their matches and everything. I am so upset I couldn't join them DD:
Edit: I didn't see the second page hahaha. HELLO BLUBBERS.

[Blubbers]

HELLO BLUBBERS.

O/ Hey Sil!!!

[StrejdaTom]

Healers are overrated sometimes, yesterday I got stuck in a 8 DPS team in 24 slaughter. We haven't won but we got to 24 score only healing trough BRD limit breaks. )