Warrior Materia

[Gullis]

Hey quick question ^^

I'm pretty new to FF in general, and I decided to main Warrior for EW

what is the most important stats for warrior when it comes to materia? ive' only found one place EW related that suggested crit first, and skill speed 2nd up to 2.41GCD


But I think i've heard other say sks is not that important anymore due to some EW changes, so go DET instead of skill speed for 2nd priority.

Any thoughts?

[Risvertasashi]

Unless the number crunching nerds come out and say they've calculated that something else is optimal, I generally do crit > det = dh as my default priority. I usually end up pretty close to what the calculated BiS is, once that's done.

Works for every job, not just warrior. Though warrior may favor DH a bit less if it still has guaranteed procs.

[ssunny2008]

Crit > Det

Don´t know about the current speed, but well, with the new kit it actually seems like staying on the 2,5s might be the best in DPS. Depends on the content timings probably.

DH is normally not a thing on WAR since you don´t have many skills and the hardhitter are guaranteed critical direct hits anyway. And while crit / det scale, DH doesn´t.

[Gullis]

Alright thanks for the quick replies. I'll go with crit and Det for now. ^^

[Marxam]

you still need enough sks to get 4 gcds into bloodwhetting and nascent flash. The change to maxing out your gcds in a defensive cd is much better than using it in inner release. This actually promotes good defensive cd gameplay and rewards you for it. Something all tanks should be doing instead of just WAR.

[ssunny2008]

you still need enough sks to get 4 gcds into bloodwhetting and nascent flash. The change to maxing out your gcds in a defensive cd is much better than using it in inner release. This actually promotes good defensive cd gameplay and rewards you for it. Something all tanks should be doing instead of just WAR.

No need for "maxing out defensive options" if the content doesn´t force it. This game is about damage and that 1 hit less under BW won´t make a difference since it wasn´t even needed in the latest tier.
As long as sks won´t give more damage than full-crit / full-det, who cares? Otherwise we would stack tenacity too... might be somehow helpful in the next ultimate coming in 5 years, maybe...

[BarretOblivion]

No need for "maxing out defensive options" if the content doesn´t force it. This game is about damage and that 1 hit less under BW won´t make a difference since it wasn´t even needed in the latest tier.
As long as sks won´t give more damage than full-crit / full-det, who cares? Otherwise we would stack tenacity too... might be somehow helpful in the next ultimate coming in 5 years, maybe...

There might be a few tank pieces with maxed Crit and can only put in 1 det materia before maxing that, which in that case might as well meld some SKS.

[NyneSwordz]

you still need enough sks to get 4 gcds into bloodwhetting and nascent flash. The change to maxing out your gcds in a defensive cd is much better than using it in inner release. This actually promotes good defensive cd gameplay and rewards you for it. Something all tanks should be doing instead of just WAR.

Wait it's possible to get 4? I thought 3 was max.