WAR Help - Where is a guide?

[Februs]

Also with the large amounts of HP at 60, is it now viable for WARs to go 30 AP in STR?

I typically advocate for a full Str AP allocation regardless of which tank you're using, honestly, because Tanks gain more benefit from Str stats in regards to Aggro and better scaling returns for specific abilities. You're trading Hp, but Tanks typically have enough HP that it shouldn't be a problem. Healers should be able to keep you alive without issue, and if they can't the problem usually lies with your use of cooldowns or the healers skill level.

[Freyyy]

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We don't follow people, this playstyle has grown inside the high level tanking community since a pretty long time now (I've myself been tanking aggressively since SCoB). There is simply some very good players who are streaming and posting very good guides on YouTube, and I believe it is normal to recommend watching them.

I see no problem in selling runs. It's a business like any other. And your last sentence doesn't make any sense. We're talking about people who cleared the cutting edge content very early.

[Mikedizzy]

Yes...lets follow a guide of someone who sells runs and has been doing so since SCOB. Is there anything wrong with that? Well that's completely up to how you take it.
I love how everyone follows people in this community without knowing the reality behind them. I'm not even going to start about Mr. Happy and his LGCY fc....
Hold on a sec...let me go gear to ilvl300 and post a video on how good I am on a fight that drops lower ilvl gear.

You don't seem to know what you are talking about. For starters anyone good enough to sell runs is pretty damn good being able to do the content down 1 person. Why are you down on Xeno...he is great for the community and always is helpful to the players. And as for Mr.Happy he is not even in Legacy any longer get your information correct. Regarless he is also good for the community and has done nothing but be helpful to players. If you don't like them then don't watch but don't bash when you don't know.

[braneri1]

People who misinterpret this video are very dumb and are most likely not listening to the entirety of the video.

Agreed. At no point does he ever advocate for doing things in one particular way 100% of the time. He even mentioned in one of his recent streams while joining some Thordan's Reign pf groups for fun (yes, he does do stuff like that, heck he was even doing Ravana ex in df as mnk lol) that he uses defiance a lot more during progression, and even now you will still see him using it at critical times in spite of how geared he is. Gear will never make defiance useless, you will just not need to have it on as often, especially when all the damage you're taking is from auto attacks and anything else that's not going to put you at immediate risk of dying.

War is a very flexible tank with many ways to handle things and many different skill synergies, and there is a lot more to being good at the job than just knowing opener rotations. That is why his videos on war are as long as they are, so that people can get a deeper understanding of it. I have found both his current one and the one for war in ARR to be very helpful. Tanking isn't even the main thing I do, it's like my third priority after healing (mostly as whm/sch) and dpsing as mnk, but thanks to the guides he has made and other general information I've seen elsewhere, I can still do quite well with it. Certainly not the best, but far better than most that I see on a regular basis who have issues with even the most basic requirements of tanking.

[Xyphon]

I really don't think most of you on the forums have any clue about all of the exploiting and RMT stuff going on the background of end game. What I'm talking about is old news. How do I know this, I was unfortunately on the same legacy server as these people since launch of 2.0.

If you really think all of these people who are top notch get there by the hard work and the sweat on their back...you live in more of a fantasy world than even FFXIV offers. The reality is most of the hardcore end game fc's exploit. Why nothing has been done about it is completely beyond me. Again this is old news since the days of position hacking in 2.0.

So not only did I see enough pf's for selling runs, I also had friends that knew these people personally (as in they ran with their static).

Never did I once say that anyone of these individuals were bad players, only that they aren't setting the best example.

If you know how the selling runs setup works, you'll understand how it funnels into RMT's. Beyond people just buying gil just to afford these runs. Though again, perhaps you don't mind these kind of things. Or you perhaps indulge in these services yourself.

In terms of Mr. Happy...which I avidly avoided...that's old news. Yes, he left his fc and transferred to another server. If I really wanted to bad mouth these individuals I'd have done so the moment I found out. Then probably made a topic somewhere to troll them as hard a possible.

Instead all I hear is people praising them, without knowing the true fallacies involved.

If you want to do a real guide, how about one where you aren't over gearing the instance.

An example of an individual that actually sets a good example would be Reinhart. He was from Sargatanus as well, and contributed to the community in a way none of us will ever forget.

[Exodus_Kenpachi]

Lol... The amount of misguided people on the OF never lets me down.

[braneri1]

So anyone who is good at the game cheats and buys gil. Nice to know.

Back up your statements with actual proof or they are nothing more than petty baseless slander. Sorry but I just can't take you seriously.

There is nothing wrong with selling runs, and anyone participating on either end of the deal does not have to be associated in any way with rmt. You do realize how insanely easy it is to make gil in this game, right? That is why SE has put in various gil sinks such as housing.

Selling runs does not make you somehow a bad person. It is no different from crafting and selling what you make. You are providing a service for someone who does not want to be able to do it all themselves, or for some reason cannot do it themselves such as not being in a static or being short on time. Real world examples of this would be relying on a financial advisor to manage your stocks, or going to a doctor to diagnose an illness, or even simply buying groceries at a store.

And yet you would vilify anyone who doesn't do everything themselves. How cute.

[Ralvenom]

I really don't think most of you on the forums have any clue about all of the exploiting and RMT stuff going on the background of end game. What I'm talking about is old news. How do I know this, I was unfortunately on the same legacy server as these people since launch of 2.0.

If you really think all of these people who are top notch get there by the hard work and the sweat on their back...you live in more of a fantasy world than even FFXIV offers. The reality is most of the hardcore end game fc's exploit. Why nothing has been done about it is completely beyond me. Again this is old news since the days of position hacking in 2.0.

[Xyphon]

If that's what you want to believe, hey its your choice to. But do yourselves a favor and step outside once and a while. The world isn't as black and white as people seem to think.

I was just giving fair warning to be careful what you worship. Go ahead and brush all of the dirt under the carpet...just know that its not going to go away by simply ignoring it.

Just like these cowards trying to troll me on here, they know they can only get away with it on a forum. Come try that in rl.

[braneri1]

So you claim we have black and white thinking when that is exactly what you are displaying here with your immature "get a life" "come at me bro" attitude and assuming that we 'worship' someone just for the mere fact that we like someone that you don't. Grow the hell up, that is some elementary school crap right there. You are a real piece of work. Thanks for the laughs at least.