Tank DPS Ranking prediction.

[rawker]

Fight or Flight, in Shield Oath, is a net gain of 4%.

[stoxastic]

WAR dps is so OP now. Was in lvl55 dungeon and tanked miniboss in deliverance and did 600+ dps. Deliverance and Fell Cleave are just so good.

Shield Oath is 20% still I believe. I think it's a typo. 25% would be too good.

[Reynhart]

Now that PLD has some really powerful WS and WAR gained better mitigation and a big heal, I can't wait for crushing numbers with a WAR MT + PLD OT setup

[Ultimatecalibur]

One thing that is very easy to miss is that Warriors lost MT damage capability: Wrath stacks no longer grants crit rate+, they grant parry rate+ now. This very easy to miss because Defiance's tool tip has not been change, but the tool tip on the Wrath buff has.

[Launched]

One thing that is very easy to miss is that Warriors lost MT damage capability: Wrath stacks no longer grants crit rate+, they grant parry rate+ now. This very easy to miss because Defiance's tool tip has not been change, but the tool tip on the Wrath buff has.

That's still only a tiny nerf (though an unnecessary one). WAR's MT damage came from being able to ignore Defiance's damage penalty with Unchained, and 300 potency Inner Beasts that also ignored it.

[Reynhart]

I don't know the damage output of DRK as a MT yet, but with Berserk and several means of not keeping the damage penalty WAR clearly surpass PLD when in tank stance.
As an OT, it's...more complicated, now.

[Ipkonfig]

DRK is a DPS machine.

The attacks added to PLD were just so they could keep up with DRK/WAR. Goring Blade's 540 potency gated by a 3 chain combo, and DRK's Scourge, 500 potency stand alone ability. Royal Authority brings the RoH combo up to 237.5 average potency. Dark Arts/Souleatter is 266 and if you want to maintain MP and cut CDs out of the rotation Delirium into DA/Souleatter spam averages to 246.

I'm curious about all out WAR Vs. DRK, but I don't think PLD will be in the equation, PLD has some sexy defensive utility now though in Clemency and Divine Veil.

[SirTaint]

DRK is a DPS machine.

The attacks added to PLD were just so they could keep up with DRK/WAR. Goring Blade's 540 potency gated by a 3 chain combo, and DRK's Scourge, 500 potency stand alone ability. Royal Authority brings the RoH combo up to 237.5 average potency. Dark Arts/Souleatter is 266 and if you want to maintain MP and cut CDs out of the rotation Delirium into DA/Souleatter spam averages to 246.

I'm curious about all out WAR Vs. DRK, but I don't think PLD will be in the equation, PLD has some sexy defensive utility now though in Clemency and Divine Veil.

Don't forget Sword oath (the biggest DPS increase of any JA besides maybe cleric stance)

I haven't played DRK yet but what is their equivalent to FoF/Zerk?

I wish the grind to 60 wasn't so lengthy. I am looking forward to parsing all 3 jobs in 30sec,3,5 and 7 minute intervals for science.

[Kaedan]

Don't forget Sword oath (the biggest DPS increase of any JA besides maybe cleric stance)

I haven't played DRK yet but what is their equivalent to FoF/Zerk?

I wish the grind to 60 wasn't so lengthy. I am looking forward to parsing all 3 jobs in 30sec,3,5 and 7 minute intervals for science.

DRK have two direct damage buffing skills: Darkside. It's a 15% increase to all damage, but drains MP slowly while active. We also have Dark Arts, which significantly increases the potency of some skills, but it costs a lot of MP to use, so you have to combine it with either Blood Price (tanking with Grit) or Blood Weapon (no Grit). Though speaking of Blood Weapon, that does increase attack speed.

A competent DRK can keep Darkside up at all times, so we constantly get a 15% damage bonus.

[BlueThunder]

DRK have two direct damage buffing skills: Darkside. It's a 15% increase to all damage, but drains MP slowly while active. We also have Dark Arts, which significantly increases the potency of some skills, but it costs a lot of MP to use, so you have to combine it with either Blood Price (tanking with Grit) or Blood Weapon (no Grit). Though speaking of Blood Weapon, that does increase attack speed.

A competent DRK can keep Darkside up at all times, so we constantly get a 15% damage bonus.

Yeah, Blood Weapon increases your attack speed by more than it seems. But it just makes you drain your TP like crazy.