Quote Originally Posted by Hierro View Post
Complexity? Stance dancing? Did we play the same game? No one really stance danced outside of prog, and even then it was as simple as just waiting until you IB'd for any mechanic. The most complex thing was figuring out which opener to use to get another IR before a certain phase change.
This tbh. WAR didn't really "stance dance" any more than other tanks(or at least DRK, bc on PLD death was almost a preferable option to losing 2 gcds on Shield Oath).

I think removing the old stance mechanic was a stupid idea, because those "training wheels" allowed for more intense active mitigation requirements when aiming for more rDPS(also removing aggro instead of adding depth to it was lazy af), but the "stance dancing" was pretty much a myth.

The biggest difference between (post 4.2)SB and SHB WAR is swapping a bunch of downtime FCs into directcrit ICs and with that making crit/dh buffs(and with them gauge management) even less relevant, but that's really just doubling down on an effect that a lot of people have praised to havens in IR.