WAR tanking efficiency theory

[HiirNoivl]

I do Titan with no problems. Trying to frighten people into poor builds does not help anyone. Stoneskin and Sacred Soil will prevent any boss from "ripping" 80% of your HP in any case.

Garuda isn't exactly a good fight to compel people to take your build seriously. Titan HM would have to be the bare minimum, but really showing you tanking Caduceus in Turn 1 would be ideal. Titan HM has the busters which hit for a lot but are predictable and he is busy doing other things afterwards so you have breathing room to heal back up. Caduceus hits like a truck and frequently Hoodswipes for high damage so if you're build was able to sustain through that (ie. not just your healers being awesome) it would go a long way in convincing people.

Some people will never be convinced. The best I can do is educate folks. If you're still convinced that WAR cannot effectively tank Titan or Caddie then there's nothing I can do for you because it's already been shown multiple times to be fine and effective and not really that hard.

If you watch the video, you'll see the screen hang. That's not your computer, its mine. Recording fights on my PC does this and I can't get it to stop. They tell me that it's an issue with the way my computer stores the videos and it's a shame but I can't change it.

This screen hang issue will spell a wipe in Titan or Caddie fights.

Thanks for understanding.

Fortunately, my tactics don't really change in either of those fights.

Kenji1134 - Going full VIT wouldn't make sense I'm currently tanking Titan and I know the amount of damage that he does to me, but going full VIT seems only good for PLD as a WAR I would be just a flan with lots of HP to just to keep getting wack by him. I still haven't done Coil.

HiirNoivl build seems more reasonable with the distribution of the stats. Just having DL and AF2 gear with no slots seems really dumb to me to be honest and I feel that WAR don't have a really take on the accessories from the myth and phil store. Probably 2.1 would sort things out with more equipment drop on the other instances and been able to stack them with materia.

Darklight is fine. Darksteel is better. You can get Crit Rate from materia on Accessories and food. you don't have to stack Crit to the heavens to be effective. But you will be more effective the more you can squeeze it in. However, the real test of a WAR tank is your "additional skills" and how well you use them.