Warrior Assitance.

[Brian_]

To the two questions,

Shadewalker is mainly for the pull. It's not going to make extended DPS stance tanking any more viable for you. All it really does is allow you to switch to SwO slightly earlier. To be honest, while I hear a lot of talk here about enmity issues, the only times I've felt it is when I actually try to pull or pick up an add in DPS stance. And, I think it's generally more an issue with proper ability priming than stance. I'm still able to ride the opening enmity through basically the entire fight even as a PLD.

As for what numbers our group is getting -- I'm pulling 1150~1200 on Faust and Hummel without potting. Our PLD is around 750~800. But, our PLD is also really not big on pushing his DPS and is relatively new to the min-maxing it requires. I have a feeling that if I were playing PLD, I could probably pull higher. I can't compare our parses in Savage since I don't do Savage on PLD but for Sephirot EX, he's usually a little over 700 DPS while I'm a shade under 900.

So even while those number might seem higher than yours, I actually don't think we do it the best way for raid DPS. I should be pulling Hummel with Unchained while the PLD DPSes, but like I said earlier, our PLD is not really big on DPSing so I don't think he'd gain as much DPS as I would lose if we made that change. Also, we'd probably have some issues on the swap because he'd have to use RoH to hold enmity over me.