War mains after seeing the skill trailer

[Maneesha]

about what they said, yes warrior is probably still in a good position, hard to judge since we cant play with the new skills yet. what they've shown warrior looked boring and like he didn't level up yet.
interessting strawpoll from reddit :
https://www.strawpoll.me/18046427/r
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._jobs_are_you/

so yeah, about flashiness and excitement this trailer showed i guess it's no surprise that war,brd & blm are at the bottom.

[Kuurei]

I feel as if this Feller Cleave nonsense will create yet another era of "Warrior is Strong" memes. lol.

PLD and DRK had a lot of new shininess to them, which does make a lot of sense since people seem to see them as inferior to WAR (Somehow). Playing a WAR myself, I feel more like a DPS than a Tank generally, except those few moments where I burn a few things to not be as squishy.

GNB looks interesting, can't wait to heal peeps running it and the other tanks. XD

[Hierro]

WAR is in a good state right now in regards to how it mechanically performs its job. It plays smoothly, like butter.

Changes for the sake of "keeping up with the neighbors" isn't a good call, so the fact few changes were added is a smart decision. The very fact that WAR will remain the top dog for damage, along with its improved functions as an OT and the "war cry" that sounds like a buff to rDPS means WAR will remain undisputed as to where it fits in the meta. This pleases me.

[Izsha]

Theres not nearly enough info to talk about the meta. They are changing the damage calculations, accessories, slashing debuff is gone, we dont know how all the tanks "support actions" compare, we dont know what each tanks dps output, we dont know what happened to all the actions for each tank they DIDNT show (SIO/RI/onslaught just for starters), we dont know how immunity skills will line up.

This is the tip of the iceberg for meta defining. We dont know jack shit to be making absurd meta claims.

War probably isn't head an shoulders for aggro anymore without unchained and all tanks having ezgg enmity stance. It doesnt have slashing debuff. Immunities are MIA info. The "extra" war defensive CDs may or may not still exist. Just because war still has the 'hardest hitting tank move' doesnt mean it's the highest dps tank.

There are galactic sized gaps in our information to even try to predict the meta. The only meta relevant items we actually KNOW of wars previouss strengths (aggro gen and slashing) are not there (unchained and slashing debuffs deleted from the game).

Meta tank crown is up for grabs until we have more detailed info on.....everything.

[Hierro]

I mean, Yoshi said WAR would remain the highest DPS tank. What's there to doubt?

But really, WAR's meta relevent strengths were always its highest DPS followed by it's excellent suite of cooldowns. What we know to be confirmed is one part of the equation, leaving us to assume that the latter half remains untouched. Aggro gen and slashing are negligible.

[Canadane]

I'm slowly approaching my 9th/10th fell cleave in a row.
They only showed 3 or 4 in the trailer? I'm not impressed.

[Marxam]

Im hyped. Especially since there is still a high potency move that wasn't shown in the trailer that's stronger than Fell cleave, something like 900 potency but that's speculation until the embargo. Other than that I'm glad that most tanks are on par with us now. Every tank has a single target buff to self/party, and aoe party shield/heal and an aoe combo path.

[ed3891]

only thing I give a remote damn about is a cosmetic change to the gauge that puts the crossed bravuras behind the beast horns

do that for us and I'll be a happy axe-slamming bastard

[Argyle_Darkheart]

Hard to tell for sure, and it could just be that things aren't finalized, but Inner Beast and Steel Cyclone seem to lack the self-heal particle effects and sound effects. Similarly, Inner Beast doesn't appear to have the buff particle effects or sound effects anymore.

Infuriate, on the other hand, does looks to have the buff particle effects and sound effects, and both Inner Beast and Steel Cyclone (which had different particle effects) were used following Infuriate.

[shao32]

i just re-check reddit live translation and stuff and thats what i saw "The playing style doesn't change. A new buff will be applied when you use certain action and when you use Fell Cleave. So that will be your most powerful asset to utilize" they don't say WAR will be the most powerfull dps tank but that new mechanic will make WAR the most potency wise attack betwen the tanks withs doesn't translate to biggest dps, apart of being a silly declaration talking about balancing tanks and then claim WAR will the the most ungabunga bcs why not + utility.

all being said the nerf-bat would hit no matter what if 1 job just become mandatory and the other 3 fight for the other spot so don't ask for much.