Is Warrior the weakest of the tanks?

[Aana]

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My thoughts exactly. Ever since 2.1 (Original War overhaul), War has been a very solid job. Fluid. Effective. High DPS. With Heavensward it gained some nice additions. A great new defensive CD, equilibrium, and a true offensive stance that made the job more solid using deliverance to maintain stacks and flowed even better.

At stormblood launch, war lost all those years of fluidity. It was clunky. Frustrating. Lost its raid utility. Did not play like the last few years of war at all. The only real improvement was stacks going past 5. But since the recent updates, its now regained its fluid nature with free stance dance again AND its ability to bank stacks, removed any cost to their offensive abilities (pacification, cost for Unchain/Release).

War fluid nature and gameplay has returned and is now stronger than ever in that respect. The loss of path was painful, but so was the int/str down loss of drk/pld. We didn't get anything to replace it and pld got raid support out the wazoo, so it stings the ego a bit. But from a practical perspective, war has survived a rocky transition to stormblood fairly well in the end. I was really concerned at release while playing it. But it ended up fine after minor tweaks. They are even redesigning shake it off at 4.1. War is in a pretty good spot.

[finders]

war is beast

[RLofOBFL]

^The difference is the healer won't need to heal the DRK at all due to abyssal while the WAR would be dropping like a fly.

[Sacred_Nym]

Nah. Abyssal Drain only heals if it's Dark Arts'd. And it doesn't gain any power from doing so while costing that much more MP. It's better to spam Abyssal Drain and use that extra mana on more Abyssal Drain or, if you must, TBN.

[Galgarion]

^The difference is the healer won't need to heal the DRK at all due to abyssal while the WAR would be dropping like a fly.

...It hurts because it's true. Come back to me, Bloodbath, I miss u.