Cooldown pairings

[dragonseth07]

Hello! What cooldowns do you often pair together (on any of the tanks)? I'm familiar with Awareness+Bulwark/Raw Intuition/Dark Dance. What other pairings are common?

[Canadane]

Other than Raw Int. + Awareness, none. It's not often advised to stack multiple defensive cooldowns.

[Chronons]

Living dead with Convalescence I suppose. Even then, its only if you happen to have Con available at the time of LD. You should be using Con throughout the fight. Raw Int + Awareness is the big one. Don't do Dark Dance and Blood Price. Although its not really the same, try and used weaker defensive cooldowns when you can Inner Beast a big hit - bigger cooldowns when you cant. Canadane is pretty spot on though, stacking def cooldowns is generally avoided as a rule.

[Hierro]

Other than Raw Int. + Awareness, none. It's not often advised to stack multiple defensive cooldowns.

Conva and ToB? How about foresight, that has to be paired to make that dinky little thing count for something. Stacking BB, vengeance, and berserk makes for AWESOME self healing and deeps when you're downing a large pull in dungeons, and that's not even counting the inevitable decimate and overpower spam. Cooldowns can be paired just fine to get a good amount of synergy, especially on WAR. "not often advised"? get out of here!

[Mirch]

{Blood Price} + random non active skill

[Ragology]

As WAR I always use Berserk and Bloodbath together since they have the same cooldown time.

Same thing with PLD Fight or Flight and bloodbath. Bloodbath is great, I hope Dark Knight has something to pair with it.

[Cabalabob]

Berserk/fight or flight and bloodbath go well together. But yeah it's generally not good to pair CDs as it reduces their effectiveness, since they're multiplicative, not additive.

Living dead with Convalescence I suppose. Even then, its only if you happen to have Con available at the time of LD. You should be using Con throughout the fight. Raw Int + Awareness is the big one. Don't do Dark Dance and Blood Price. Although its not really the same, try and used weaker defensive cooldowns when you can Inner Beast a big hit - bigger cooldowns when you cant. Canadane is pretty spot on though, stacking def cooldowns is generally avoided as a rule.

I think you mean walking dead, using convalesce while living dead is active is kinda counter productive.

[Chronons]

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Yes I am aware how it functions. Living Dead is the name of the cooldown, which is what the OP asked. If you use LD and dont get the Walking Dead status than you used it wrong to begin with.

[Jpec07]

Other than those, there are a couple to avoid (DO NOT DO THESE):

• Blood Price + Dark Arts + Dark Dance - Dark Arts is highlighted in red, because when you use it with Dark Dance, you get a boost to your dodge chance. Dodged attacks make Blood Price less valuable.
• Blood Price + Dark Arts + Dark Passenger - Similar to above, this one afflicts enemies with Blind, which effectively increases your dodge chance, and works against Blood Price.
• Hallowed Ground + any other defensive cooldown - Hallowed Ground is godmode. Why would you waste something else on top of it?

Otherwise, I have a few pairings I do. Fight or Flight pairs nicely with Bloodbath, Dark Dance goes well with Foresight, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head for WAR.