Navigating WAR in the new content - How to avoid the squish and optimize rotation?

[Hierro]

I find tenacity on the left side and a few STR accessories on the right side are good for leveling. The tenacity adds mitigation to make up for lost vit, and the damage isn't half bad either, while the STR is for obvious purposes.

I use two sets of 3 defensive CDs. Start in defiance and gather things up with an overpower, put up storms' eye buff, upheaval something, then switch to deliverance and pop infuriate+berserk and proceed with overpower spam, decimate just before berserk runs out.

The CD sets I use are rampart, thrill of battle, and convalescence for one pull
then vengeance, awareness, and raw intuition for another pull.

It's just not practical to use most of your new skills, like onslaught. shake it off is just to be used as necessary, and inner release won't ever see the light of day during pulls due to the time it takes to use and get its full use. That said, it's going to be the same old spamming overpower and decimate.