[GUIDE] Warrior: Skill Intensive Tanking

[SpookyGhost]

This is a pre-2.1 guide. :P

[Jekyll]

Could someone please chime in with a post 2.1 BiS set to get this guide updated? ^^

[SpookyGhost]

Post-T5 BiS would be:

Weapon - Allagan / Head - Allagan / Body - Myth / Hands - Myth / Belt - Allagan / Pants - Myth / Boots - Allagan

Neck - Allagan / Earrings - Allagan / Bracelet - Myth / Ring #1 - Allagan / Ring #2 - Myth

Maximizes parry while hitting (infact, surpassing) the T5 acc cap w/o food. Myth Pants are better now because they give DET over Crit. Not much else has changed as only the Inferno Bangle has parry on it and it doesn't have as much as the Hero's equivalent. If you choose not to maximize Parry then you have other options, such as maximizing your DET (Vortex Ring and Myth helm) or SS (all myth jewelry with Inferno Bangle, unfortunately need to use Allagan chest and Myth boots for this set). Obviously if you plan on tanking things, Parry is much more important, but otherwise you can go in those two directions. If you plan on maximizing your DPS for the lowest cost to your VIT, then full Gryphonskin pentameld is the way to go - though a bit costly.

Pre-T5 is the same set, just with Dual Haken (need it to wear the Allagan boots and Myth chest) and the Myth helm.

All that said, your personal BiS should be whatever hits the accuracy cap for T5 and gets you as close to i90 as possible until you're routinely beating T5. Don't hold out on Myth pieces that would help the most just because "it might drop from T1!!!"

[Maelwys]

Post-T5 BiS would be:

Honestly, there are currently a few options for BIS. See Below.
(1) The first is to use the Bravura +1: this grants a higher Parry rate.
(2) The second is to grab the Allagan Axe: this grants a small amount of extra damage and HP.


Bravura +1 (Yes really)
Allagan Helm (Turn 5)
Warrior's Body
Warrior's Hands
Allagan Belt
Warrior's Legs
Warrior's Feet
Allagan Neck
Allagan Earrings
Hero's Wrist
Hero's Ring
Allagan Ring
+ HQ Sandwiches
= 480 Accuracy, 601 Parry and 8927 HP in party for a +30Vit Seawolf (10713 with ToB)

Allagan Axe (the obvious option)
Allagan Helm (Turn 5)
Warrior's Body
Warrior's Hands
Allagan Belt
Warrior's Legs
Allagan Feet
Allagan Neck
Allagan Earrings
Hero's Wrist
Hero's Ring
Allagan Ring
+ HQ Sandwiches
= 498 Accuracy, 568 Parry and 9036 HP in party for a +30Vit Seawolf (10843 with ToB)

[klops]

every dedicated tank should have four gearsets:

1. 476 accuracy, high parry
2. 476 accuracy, low parry
3. low accuracy, high parry
4. low accuracy, low parry

1 & 2 for coil, 3 & 4 for extremes/fodder. that's all there is to it. if you want to go the extra mile, maximize strength on 2 & 4 as well (melded jewelry).

[Warrlordd]

My set incorporates as much determination as i can find. I figure that I will leave my mitigation tanking for my PLD.

Therefore my set is as such (so far):

Weapon: Dual Haken
Head:Myth
Chest:Allagan
Glove:Myth
Waist:Myth
Legs:Myth
Boots:CT
Neck:Ultima
Earring:Allagan Maiming
Bracer:Myth
Ring1:Garuda EX
Ring2:Allagan Maiming

Desired upgrades:
Weapon: Allagan Battle Axe
Gloves: Allagan
Boots:Allagan
Earring: Titan EX
Bracer:Allagan

[Dijin]

Hey Great Threat, I've learned a ton about my new favorite class. One thing im still a lil confused on is where to put the stats i get as a i level is it best to go all VIT or all STR or equal to each. I plan to go EG and have with a few 50 jobs i have currently but WAR is gonna be my new main. OR is it totally person preference. thx for the help. ^.^/

[Moonwolfthegrey]

My advice Dijin is to go all vitality
Most people do that ,
U can then equip Dps accessories so on if u wanna up the Dps.
But ur main job is to tank and vitality is more usefull

[Aloreal]

My advice Dijin is to go all vitality
Most people do that ,
U can then equip Dps accessories so on if u wanna up the Dps.
But ur main job is to tank and vitality is more usefull

Because str is only for dps and not useful at all on damage mitigation and emnity generation.

On retrospective, bellow ilvl 100 go full fending then slowly switch to str as you get ilvl 100 sol gear. you do need an effective hp as warrior that is only available at higher ilvl gear

[Dijin]

awesome tips thx everyone ^.^/