Looking for gear ideas for WAR

[AmyNeudaiz]

I'm looking for some ideas for my WAR set up. I have a full HP + enmity set for things like straight tanking Coincounter (seen my HP get to almost 6.4k, that was pretty sick.) and a STR + ATP + ACC + HP + enmity for just about everything else as far as melds and jewelry.

Both of my sets are fairly standard and I was looking for some creative suggestions of what's good for tanking on WAR for full gear sets. I'd also like to know why you think it would be a good set up or if you can, parse tests vs other builds.

(Also, I can't stand the DL grind. I find speed runs to be boring as hell and not fun so no DL for me. However, if you have an idea you'd like to share that does have darklight, feel free. Just know I won't go for it.)

[Molly_Millions]

For tanking the cobalt plate set is boss, I'm sure you have that though. Where you can get creative with WAR is with DD sets. You have two routes you can go; you can go for STR and VIT, or you could for STR, Crit Attk power, acc, and crit rate. (Before anyone goes off about the effectiveness of crits, I believe this only works with WAR because of WAR's generally lower DPS output. I have not tested a crit build for DRG for example because my DRG gear is seriously lacking.)

The STR and VIT build is pretty standard, you'll want a Cobalt Hauby with all the VIT you can put on it, and some cobalt mitt gauntlets with all the STR you can put on them. Get some felt trousers double melded with ironman's will. From there it's about stacking acc until you get as close to 100% as possible.

For the crit build you'll want a darksteel hauby double or triple melded with crit attack power. Yes, it's extremely expensive. Get the explorer's moccasins, explorer's earrings, explorer's choker and explorer's belt (but you may want a belt with acc instead). Use the same pants as above. Get an electrum ring +1 and maybe an amber ring +1 as well. This build works best on groups of mobs rather than primals etc. due to the effect of dlvl on crit rate.

[AmyNeudaiz]

For tanking the cobalt plate set is boss, I'm sure you have that though. Where you can get creative with WAR is with DD sets. You have two routes you can go; you can go for STR and VIT, or you could for STR, Crit Attk power, acc, and crit rate.

The STR and VIT build is pretty standard, you'll want a Cobalt Hauby with all the VIT you can put on it, and some cobalt mitt gauntlets with all the STR you can put on them, from there it's about stacking acc until you get as close to 100% as possible.

For the crit build you'll want a darksteel hauby double or triple melded with crit attack power. Yes, it's extremely expensive. Get the explorer's moccasins, explorer's earrings, explorer's choker and explorer's belt (but you may want a belt with acc instead). Get an electrum ring +1 and maybe an amber ring +1 as well. This build works best on groups of mobs rather than primals etc. due to the effect of dlvl on crit rate.

Crit rates isn't something I've really experimented with on WAR because I see it as an empty stat. 1 crit rate adds to 1% of your current % of actual rate of criticals. Bottom line is that it doesn't add up to much no matter how much you add (to the standards of what is possible), but I've never seen parse testing for stacked crit rates so I could be wrong.
But yeah, I have a cobalt set for tanking on both my HP and general use builds and they are pretty awesome.

[Molly_Millions]

Crit rates isn't something I've really experimented with on WAR because I see it as an empty stat. 1 crit rate adds to 1% of your current % of actual rate of criticals. Bottom line is that it doesn't add up to much, but I've never seen parse testing for stacked crit rates so I could be wrong.
But yeah, I have a cobalt set for tanking on both my HP and general use builds and they are pretty awesome.

It does when you get crits on 30% of your hits. I've parsed that set up quite a bit.

What I observed is that adding the explorer's moccasins alone, I got about a 5% boost in actual crit rate. you get something like 1.67% more crits for every 10 additional points in crit rate. Basically it's only effective if you stack as much crit rate as possible. Adding only the moccasins, for example won't do much (even though they are the best DD boots for WAR.)

[AmyNeudaiz]

It does when you get crits on 30% of your hits. I've parsed that set up quite a bit.

30%? That's really high. I may have to consider some new gear then, thanks for the head up on that.

[Molly_Millions]

30%? That's really high. I may have to consider some new gear then, thanks for the head up on that.

Indeed, it's not for the weak of heart though. That hauby is one expensive piece of gear to blow up, not to mention the cost of the materia to put on it.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Indeed, it's not for the weak of heart though. That hauby is one expensive piece of gear to blow up, not to mention the cost of the materia to put on it.

It's not too bad on my server. If you don't go for +1 I think it's like 300k.
Gil is easy to get anyways.