Unchained. Seriously, why are we not abusing this skill?

[JackFross]

A lot of people in this thread are drastically missing the point.

No matter what your party comp consists of, it is always - always - always - optimal for raid DPS to have the WAR do their 1-minute cooldown opener with Unchained chaining into Deliverance>Berserk and then have the other tank swap in on Pacify. It allows both tanks to do near-perfect opening DPS on the pull without threat issues at the start or in the long run. The issue with this is that it's a JP strat, not NA/EU. The mentality of NA/EU players is different from that of the JP players. Where they consider ways of making micro optimizations here and there to the overall benefit of the raid, we have this unfortunate strict definition of MT and OT and whoever pulls is MT.

Basically, the tanking roles are and should be considered to be more fluid than that.


Also in regards to what Metalwrath said, I don't play WAR, but I am 99.9% positive that your Berserk is delayed by the exact same amount whether you drop an unchained butcher's block first or if that first BB is Deliverance as the off-tank. You're not gonna Berserk before you've built 4 stacks, which takes 2 combos, which is all you'll be in Defiance for anyway with an Unchained pull.

http://ffxivrotations.com/613 versus http://ffxivrotations.com/615

(can obv swap the Infuriate Fell Cleave to be the second not the third if wanted for additional gains off party buffs)