WARRIOR Tips & Tricks

[Terabyt3]

You can't look at it 1 dimensional though. It not only boosts your thrill of battle but also stone skin and natural regen. A larger hp pool affects 3 aspects straight off the bat.

As for those macros I popped up earlier.....

Use the convalescence one first.
After 40 secs
Pop the bloodbath one
After 40 secs
Pop the foresight one
After 40 secs
Convalescence cd is active again

Since the abilities last roughly 15-20 seconds you have active mitigation on for almost 50% of the fight AND vengeance on from the start to help extra enmity building (every little helps when you're hitting adds that hit you for free)

The only things that really would split seperate might be Foresight and featherfoot but since both are relatively sucky seperate sticking them together really helps.

Berserk and bloodbath sharing the same cooldown is a glaringly obvious shout as to how to get the most from a lacklustre bloodbath ideally while it's active you can pop the inner beast macro i put up for most effectiveness (is that a word?) from it.

[javid]

You can't look at it 1 dimensional though.

AAAAh the 3 together!!! Point well made

18% + 20%+ room for Regen to Fill up

38% of 9000 HP vs 38% of 6200 HP

now that's something to talk about!!!! 1064 HP is definitely Worth the trouble.

BBBBUUUUUTTTT.

I'm not saying saying 8K HP is the excessive point; but is 9K HP really useful?

And I'm all for the War that want to mitigate fights by having a butt load of HP to start with which gives the Healers a break (if the healer is smart) b/c even if they take back to back to back BIG SMASHING HITS they have the HP pool to stand it.


Side comment: The biggest misconception in Most MMO's is that healers always think you need to be top' off. NOOOO HEALERSS!!!! WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE HIT THAT COMING...that's it ( currently we have no stat; or passive; or latent abilities; that demand us have a certain % of HP for it to proc) So WE can go through rotation and execute all our skill if we sit at 1 HP the entireeeeeeee fight JUST the same as if we had 200k HP.

We only need Enough HP to handle the damage coming; nothing more is useful; it's just pretty to look at.

image we could have alll the HP need during a boss fight upfront. Let's say a Titan fight cost 250K HP (let's just say)

If someone has a hp pool of 250,001HP;
another has 500, 000HP;
& still another guy has 300, 000HP

Each guy fair the exact same no better no worst.

[Terabyt3]

For the TLDR people WAR comes down to 2 seperate things. hate holding and cooldown management.

HATE GENERATION!
Tomahawk
Overpower if a group and there's no Sleep
HS>SS>BB combo
Overpower if a group and there's no Sleep
Fracture
HS>Maim>Storm's Eye
Overpower if a group and there's no Sleep
HS>SS>BB combo
HS>SS>BB combo
Overpower if a group and there's no Sleep
Fracture
HS>Maim> Choose between Eye if you need more hate OR if you're clear in hate use path.

Repeat hate combo x2, fracture, maim combo like so.


CD Management!

If you monitor your cooldowns all the time (as well in between the hate generation bit above) you help your healer out for around 50% of the fight.

At the start pop Convalescence > vengeance (helps healing without generating as much threat and attacks to help build initial hate)
40 secs later
Bloodbath > Berserk (Bloodbath with increased attack power?! YES please!)
40 secs later
Foresight > Featherfoot (2 lacklustre abilities that when combined become a useful macro!)
40 secs later
Back to the start! You cooldown should be ready!


THE OH S**T! Buttons!

Spike damage is WAR's greatest problem so a high HP pool and VIT stacking those 30 bonus points helps your biggest ability. Thrill of Battle. use these abilities whenever you take spike damage one for big damage the other for MASSIVE damage.

Big Damage:
Internal Release>Inner Beast>Infuriate

MASSIVE Damage (Either just before or just after):
Thrill of Battle > Awareness > Second Wind

[javid]

Defiance

25% reduction on actual dmg dealt. So this takes affect after you attack Power gets convert to actual dmg vs mob. What I'm hoping someone will show is how does Attack Power Scale to Damage. I assume mob's have defense. But I've also notice whether I hit a lvl 20 or lvl 50 mob I hit for around the same amount??

In the same way Maim affects Damage dealt by 20% not Attack Power.

Effectively by having Defiance and maim up you have already regain most of your Damage dealt back!! (20%-25%= -5%)


Another Question is when is Slash Resistance calculated in Damage dealt? Is it as people assume on the Attack Power side (11% more attack Power?) or on the damge dealt side ( 1/2* of Maim). If it's input on the later side that would mean with maim & storm's eye after defiance your Damage dealt will be at +6%.

Finally Potency appears to directly affect Damage Dealt.

[Trigador]

hey javid, thx for your tips
if you can gather the tips/tricks in this thread then edit the OP that would be great

[javid]

Titan Warrior Tip...."let a paladin tank" .NO J/K... LOL



Seriously though; if you have a two Warrior setup or you severly out armor the paladin; One serious tip for your tanking success. SAVE YOUR DEFENSIVE COOLDOWNS STARTING AT THE HEART PHASE. From heart phase until its done only use things that will recast in 90 sec... (that's max how long tha phase is... really more like 70 sec...[screenshot timed it]).

Now when to use cool downs? Right at the start of the Final phase of titan he'll welcome you with a 1k + 800+ 4k Hit; then he'll focus on party with aoe's. This is the moment your cooldowns have been waiting for (BUT DONT USE THEM ALL ><... 2 AT MOST). Adding those numbers up you need 5K+ to live (no heals for each time does this).

And the last tip to know when again he'll do this assault. When he looks at you dead in the face and bitch slap you with that LEFT HAND....it's time to get serious and throw up some DEfense. ITS ALWAYS THAT LEFT HAND BITCH SLAP....


LEFT HAND.....





P.s. it is my belief that Titan is indeed LEFT HANDED.... (yes, yes he rock slides with the RIGHT and it does 2kish dmg) While all his other moves require full exertion.... that left pimp/bitch slap (the name is growing) is effortless for 1k+ ..... I mean...I'm just saying



OOOH..... Titan Mountain Crusher-whatever-it's-called.... can be dodged and resisted!! YES RESISTED (IT'S A EARTH DMG! DING DING DING DING!!!) I DODGE IT ONCE AND RESISTED IT TWICE* (MY EARTH RESISTANCE IS OF COURSE 293)