FFXIV HW: Xeno's "Aggressive Style" Warrior Tanking Guide 3.X
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Rotations:
Main Tank: 30:47
Infuriate- Unchained- Overpower/tomahawk- Heavy Swing- Brutal Swing- Maim- Bloodbath- Berserk- Storm's Eye- Heavy Swing-Internal Release- Skull Sunder- Potion- Butcher's Block- Deliverance- Fracture- Heavy Swing- Fell Cleave- Maim- Brutal Swing- Storm's Eye- Defiance/Stay in Deliverance
Off Tank: 33:00
Heavy Swing- Brutal Swing- Maim- Berserk- Storm's Eye- Heavy Swing- Internal Release- Maim- Potion- Storm's Eye- Fracture- Heavy Swing- Fell Cleave- Infuriate- Fell Cleave- Brutal Swing- Maim
Triple Dream Cleave: 34:44
Infuriate- Wait until timer is at 1 sec- Raw Intuition- Wait until 5-10 sec- Heavy Swing- Brutal Swing- Maim- Storm's Eye- Heavy Swing- Berserk- Fell Cleave- Vengeance- Maim- Internal Release- Storm's Eye- Potion- Heavy Swing- Maim- Brutal Swing- Storm's Eye- Fracture- Fell Cleave- Infuriate- Fell Cleave
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Thank you for the WAR guide, thanks to this vid, I was able to carry my team to victory after hours of wipes to P8S!
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"If your healers cannot heal you through auto attacks, then unfortunately, you may need to find new healers."
Harsh, but truth.
Nothing harsh about it.
KyvannShrike just don't play with elitist practice makes perfect reslly starring to think ppl see this as more than a game
Perfect practice makes perfect. Shitty practice makes shitty
The Bloke just because a player is better than you /= elitist. Also its not that, many people have fun through challenging themselves and getting better.
lakie92 oh no thats not what im saying at all i dont care if someones better than me i dont see the game as a compettition im not competitive at all lol a wins a win just don't be the guy whos all high and mighty with your parcer
this is so nice to watch mr. cute strummer has come a long way peepoCute peepoSit
I come back and watch this guide every once in a while, every time I feel I learned something new, because I can understand more of these tips by linking to the experience I gained during the progression of that period
I gotta say this is probably the best guide I have ever seen for any mmo and your not afraid to tell the viewer "you're an idiot if". I actually learned a few things, unlike some others who had videos of "hurr durr, this be my button layout and I do Savage." Meanwhile said player has marcos with like 6 commands going off at once crippling the living hell out of anyone do anything after reaching level cap. I felt something was off when I played DRK and WAR and made some adjustments via these videos, I even had questions answered before I could ask them!
wow, thx for the compliment! I definitely appreciate it and glad the vid helped :D
yeah man, your videos they kinda made me feel like I was having a pep talk with myself. All this stuff you have listed I been trying to work out on a controller in a nice flow and I got to admit it gets quite channeling to the point of needing some marcos to get the job done.
My compliments for this presentation.So mature and into the point. Ty for this. As a young warrior this presentation seems to be very usefull for me.Good job here!
Why am I still watching this video with full attention when the game doesn't even work this way anymore? Regardless, this is a fantastic guide. As tank main, I wish I had played FFXIV back in Heavensward when tanking looks so interesting compared to today (6.4).
As a Paladin, I'm very envious on how much this class stands on a league of its own compared to other tanks. Warriors are being compared as standard dps and sight on these glorious bastards piss me off.
Congrats on the buffs
Having played WoW for 9 years dose.... NOTHING for helping me with this game.... You guides are very helpful and I am glad I found your channel
Glad to see a WoW player who doesn't think this game works the same as it, because it doesn't.
Yeah, a common misconception of vet WoW players when transfering from that game to this one, is they think, "I've played World of Warcraft. I bet this game is exactly like it and hardly differs at all." Then they wonder why they get kicked from duties at endgame...lol.
I had someone who was a vet WoW player try to call me a scrub in the game for not using "WoW Strats" in this game. I simply replied, "This isn't WoW. They are not the same. If you want WoW, then gtfo." They were a tank and were taking INSANE amounts of damage. Like, not just a lot, but A LOT of damage to the point where I couldn't even DPS.(I main in SCH, btw) And he was like, "Why aren't you dpsing?!" and at that moment I just *facepalm* and reply, "I would if you didn't take so much damage and actually knew how to use your CD's!
He was completely oblivious to the fact that he was in a different MMO and it doesn't always necessarily work the same way as WoW. Sorry for rambling, just thought I should share that rather funny story, atleast it was to me, lol.
I've taken Drk to 60 and hit mid-tier raiding but this extremely comprehensive guide has convinced me to get War up there as well. Will definitely be using this as a constant reference. Thanks for the hard work!
here to watch my fav job when it was at it's prime, and made me love to push my limits in-game.
one day, one day...
Thanks for actually making this detailed guide. it really rekindled my love for my WAR and gave me something to improve on.
I am pretty sure your UI isn't set up to maximize efficiency. puu.sh/jl6yd.jpg I find is the best UI I could make.
I need this in my life.
Jared Brisky Even your UI is Fell Cleabin'!!
+Jared Brisky max efficiency is subjective though tbh, what might be great for you, something else might produce the same results for others
+Jeff Slaughter however i just lel'd at that UI, MOAR FELL CLEAVE
I learn something every single time I watch this video. Thank you for creating such a comprehensive style guide.
Hello, Xenos. Started playin this game a few days ago and I picked a Marauder/War because I always liked plate wearer and melee dps classes (played ret Paladin, Unholy Death Knight and Fury/Arms Warrior in WoW). Looks like I picked the class with the most difficult, fun and rewarding mechanic in this game, in pair with Ninja (all I know is from the reviews I readed).
Btw I want to congratz you, this is one of the most in-depths guides I've ever seen in my life and I play MMOs since '00. Hope to see more contents published by you on the future so I can polish my gameplay. :D Peace, man.
Exciting to see that my adjustment to Heavensward as a Warrior closely mirrors what you're talking about in your video Xenosys.
This class is so awesome. Every day I can push myself to a higher skill level and compete with DPS players while mitigating damage :D
Fantastic Guide as always Xenosys. Though I don't personally play Warrior it is nice enough to see someone who is as deeply connected to helping other players do as well as they possibly can as you have been; both now and in your 2.XX guides. Keep it up
Deliverance is love. Deliverance is life.
fellcleave is love
double fellcleave is life
Triple Fellcleave or gtfo
Double Decimate is even sexier
Triple that Decimate bro!
+CaptCondon I honestly never run into a situation where I need to triple decimate...the mobs are long gone by the time of that 3rd one, unless, I'm soloing A2S?
I have been playing FF14 since August of this year and knew, before starting the game, that i wanted to tank. I stared off Paladin tanking and just recently discovered Warriors, and let's just say I knew from that point I was meant to wield an axe. Ever since watching this video, I have been able to unlock even more of my potential as a WAR tank and look forward to more info coming down the pipeline. Keep up the good work Xeno!
I really enjoyed not only the content but your approach.
God I remember when the game was like this and I watched this to try and be a stance dancing op tank...now it is always one style! Lol
Remember when the game actually had depth? Different approaches with the same kit, with pros and cons that could be heavily manipulated to your advantage. A risk VS. reward factor. A skill ceiling so high that a tank could do more damage than the average DPS. A real factor of minmaxing and customization.
Bruh the nostalgia i got into gordias cause of this guide.
I miss heavensward and (to a slightly lesser extend unless we're talking about pld) stormblood tanking.
If tanking becomes any more braindead in 6.0 im going dps feelsbad
you wont need to go dps, tank will already be dps if it gets any more simple
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into making this guide!
Subscribed because your AWESOME !!! and also because the nuclear clip on how bad ass fell cleave is was absolutely the BEST !! I agree 100%
Dude, I am maining WHM but hell, I wish I would main war play it like you do. Probably the best war I have yet seen in this game, too bad I am on a different server I'd give you a greeting lol.
one of the best guides about any playing style I have ever seen.... great job
just got 46, not much i can do atm cant wait to get them levels and start teaching myself this awesome vid xeno
Rest in peace, Warrior. You will be missed.
Great stuff. I implemented a lot of the rotation and approach and saw an instant DPS increase.
Great job on the good work Xeno. Every so often I come back to this video to remind myself of the viking mentality. It is only now I realized it wil optimize DPS to hold off internal release in the off and main tank opener to line up it's cool down with Berserk. Started the game in Summer and mained warrior ever since and loved it. Your videos have been awesome providing the groundwork of my playstyle.
+Michael Oosting Damn man thats awesome!I really appreciate that and glad you found the vids resourceful :D
Would like to point something out in your OT opener. For the last part, if you did Heavy swing > Fell cleave > Infuriate + Brutal Swing > Fell cleave > maim instead of placing brutal swing after your second fell cleave you essentially get a free 10% crit from the abandon stacks on that brutal swing.
genbowl Yea i try to squeeze it in when i can but sometimes my ping/skillspeed wont allow it. I wanted to display it as the safer way, given the huge differences in people connection, I can safe say though that with selene I never have a problem hitting it :D
Awesome video! I've been playing warrior for a while but never thought to do some things you suggest in the video. Definitely a great video to watch after taking some time away from the game.
Also great insight into understanding the stance dance and when/where/how it is utilized.
Cheers!
Hey man.. Ive been waiting for your guide for quite a while since your last warrior guide.. I would like to thank you for the time and effort making this guide. The last guide helped a lot and this one is even better!! Keep up the good work!!
Huge thanks again..
Great video, extremely informative than the other videos I've seen, I was hoping to use this method with my GLD (stat only not the skills obviously) but further watching your video I see that it will not work for GLD and so I become a warrior, Thank you, this video is very much needed for noobs like me.
Finally!!!! Let me get the popcorn.
man this video is almost 10 years old now its a classic 👍
The Sarg tank legacy continues.
Awesome guide that'll help me continue to improve as a WAR. I just wish more folks followed this philosophy.
hey xenosys just wanted to say you're an amazing warrior. watching your videos made me not completely suck at tanking. that said I was wondering if you're ever going to a dark knight video as you once did for paladin. don't get me wrong warrior is fun but I like day knight more but sadly I have nothing to go on but people doing parodies of the class. if someone like you did a video I'd atleast have someone credible to go off of
+Xenosys Vex I second this request please!
Wow thats awesoem man, and thx! I do plan to make one, i just need to get more comfortable with the job haha.
+Xenosys Vex I look forward to it
I concur for a dark knight guide! BTW What is the Metal Remix of Ultima in the background?
Second Wind and Equillibrium are effected by Berserk. You can pop Berserk + Second Wind + Equillibrium for a massive self heal.
The primed 3 FC rotation: I usually use Vengeance instead of RI to extend the Abandon @ 1s, and then RI to get back to 5 stacks after the FC. Using Vengeance after the pull is only useful is you are actually tanking at that point. If you are OT, it is better to use Vengeance before the pull itself as it'll recover from CD earlier.
I usually do something like:
Infuriate->Vengeance @1s->pull made ~20s->HS->Brutal->Berserk right @ GCD recovery->FC->Maim->Potion->SE->IR->(BB combo)->FC->Infuriate->FC->Fracture. While the recommendation Xeno makes @35:30 of the video puts off the first FC until the 4th GCD - this rotation does it on the 2nd. Albeit, Xeno's has Maim/SE up for the first FC, which is nice. However, my opener has all of those major CDs up earlier (Infuriate, Berserk, Vengeance, RI etc).
Take A1S for example. With my rotation, you get Infuriate up one extra time right at the split. About 1 GCD before split, you wind up landing a FC + Infuriate + FC again all under Maim/SE effect anyway, gaining back that "lost" damage from the first FC w/o SE effect.
Just my opinion. Maybe there is some theorycraft behind his rotation making it superior. Great info here though.
+bill stefanko first priority is always getting maim and SE up. No matter what. Because you dont put up maim or SE before berserk you are losing out on a ton of damage. Before you pop zerk you should always have up maim and SE so that every attack you do will be buffed 100%
+Xenosys Vex I'd agree 99% of the time, except in this one A1S corner case. I think by waiting until 5th GCD for your first FC, you get one less FC in before the split and the add's HP is set. So, in theory, while that first non-Maim/SE FC is used, in reality it is @ 200% strength since that extra FC done before the split is more valuable than one after the split.
However, nearly any other content, starting triple FC after SE+Maim is best.
+bill stefanko assuming your timing is right, it is still a dps loss not only for you but on the boss as well, the attacks you lose without maim and SE more than make up for one FC(those attacks counting before the split). Plus it completely fucks your opening burst and it screws with your zerk timing throughout the fight because later you will be able to get in 2-3 triple zerk FC by using raw intuition and skipping fracture. The goal is to stay in defiance as little as possible, so burning your CD like that makes you either have to stay in defiance longer, or your healers to do less damage. Also the optimal pull will be the warrior pulling in unchained/deliverance(with nin) so the OT can go ham, that way you have both tanks doing 100% damage and not have to worry about aggro. Obviously there are many ways to tank this, however getting back to your point about the 2-3 gcd faster FC, it is still a dps loss because of Maim and SE not being up until roughly 15 sec of zerk window. At this point you weigh 30% damage vs 230 pot gain? Ill take the damage increase. Thats not including the auto attacks that are missing the 30% damage either. You should never look at a fight as "just the opener" thats bad because you still have 4+ minutes of the fight as a whole. you have to look at the whole fight and gauge the dps at the end. Unless there are dps checks it doesnt matter what your dps is at during section A of the fight. What matters is the fight as a whole, downtime included. I guess my point is, to my knowledge, it will never be a damage increase without maim and eye being applied first. Going by your logic fracture should be the first ability used, or maybe i am misunderstanding?
+Xenosys Vex Past the split in A1S, things get complicated. But I have no issues with zerk/triple FC going forward from there. If anything, zerk/cooldowns are all up earlier. Since we are clearing A1S plenty early, I'm going to try it your way. Back when we still in progression, I did do it your way (prime boss with SE, then triple FC) and my parses were showing me anywhere from 1000-1500 dmg lower (in comparison) before the split because of the one less FC (I think) that would be sneaked in before the split (if using first FC on 2nd GCD). The way my GCD work out is about 5s before split, I have FC/Infuriate/FC - all under Maim/SE obviously. I was personally seeing a DPS gain up to the split. And for arguments' sake (this A1S business is getting strictly academic now), any damage performed in Phase 1 is technically double damage since every point of HP you take off then is 2 points you don't take off later.
In phase 2 (split to jump), still get in a zerked-triple FC, and I think that due to my popping all my CDs a little earlier in the opener, I wind up with Infuriate coming up right before that jump (another FC) as opposed to Infuriate coming up during the jump where it sits unused for a while before you can safely use it w/o stacks wearing off before land.
However, with all that said, since A1S is trivial for my group, I am going to try it the way you recommend. You know how once you are comfortable with a fight, it is easy to change things up. I can probably move all my stuff back by 3 GCDs and see if the difference in CDs/FC-usage winds up being a bonus.
In regards to your question, I apply Fracture at the end of the triple FC rotation. Sometimes latency messes up that last GCD. I"d rather risk losing Fracture than the zerk'd 3rd FC due to pacification. Might not be best practice, but since I'm on the cusp of skill speed, sometimes I'm just a few ms short on that last zerk'd GCD.
Excellent stuff. Not only excellent, but also useful as hell.
Keep up the great work !
The video that started it all. God bless you for this and changing the meta forever.
haha thx man. old days
Just recently I've decided to main Warrior as my tank, because I love the idea of "Gain hate, then DPS the heck out of my enemy as a Tank". As I played Warrior without a guide, mostly in POTD I learn many, many mixups and I fell in love with the class. Your guide shall be my guiding light to eventually master the stance dancing and become the ultimate tank ^_^
Xeno keeping the WAR playerbase on the right track. Keep the axe arm strong.
It's a bummer seeing you as an Au Ra. I feel that your Highlander was a big part of your in-game identity.
loved using these pointers back when I used to play ff14. In a nutshell, other tanks need to ask the warrior permission for a turn at aggroing the boss, if the warrior says no, that's final
i've been looking for a warrior tank guide and this is it! thank you!
I love that parse of A2 . Everybody is getting good numbers.
Thank you soo much for your video. I definitely need to prioritize using berserk. I had only used it to build stacks, so yes, I am a average tank, and playing the Warrior all wrong. Thank you!!
And don't worry, I did account for the new content patch. 3.2 and such. I was just looking for insight how to be a better Warrior. I'm underperforming. But now I know what I was doing wrong. Not using Berserk enough, and totally avoiding it because of the nasty debuff it leaves after it wears off.
wow i cant even believe i watched the full video xD
nice job really good information AND entertaining actually :D i tend to lose focus on long guides but i was srsly interested the whole time and had even fun!! xD nice video xeno
Thanks for all the help Xeno, I really learned a lot from your guides. Idk if you remember but I ran normal Alex with your alt about a month back. I didn't think it was actually you at the time but when I saw your stream yesterday I realized it was lmao.
Nice guide and i apreciate the efford put into it. I found a few points that are outdated from 2.0 or common knowledge to most and simply not mentioned, but still important to know.
a few things missing in ability descriptions :
Defiance (stance) also increases enmity by each action you perform, making it stronger in grabbing and maintaining hate.
Steel cyclone as of 3.0 needs a target now (still is a point blank AoE though, not around your target, so can have anything in target)
Decimate needs a target , too (also stays point blank AoE)
On rotations:
On stunnable mobs, i would be pretty pissed if stun resistance got built up on it just to get a bit more dps in. Its the same for me as Bards using snare when i am summoner because they think it increases damage while all it does in reduce mine (avatar stops attacking)
+Elyza Winter Thx Elyza! However, It should be obvious that Defiance increases threat because its the tanking stance. If I need to mention something like that then that person watching probably shouldnt be playing Warrior. Remember this is not a beginners guide. Steel Cyclone and Decimate do not need a target. You can use the ability while having nothing targeted. Or no enemies around. They simply require 5 stacks, thats it. As far as the stuns, there very few raid mobs that require stuns and in the videos of those raids I mention it :D
that is odd, my steel cyclone requires a target all the time. must be the fact I use controller probably :/
Hmmm yea, im not sure. I play on pc with a mouse and keyboard so i cant be sure :/
+Xenosys Vex Ok, it is safe to ignore my comment about Steel Cyclone needing a target: Obviously i am Stupid! I seem to have put Steel Cyclone and Decimate on one macro for a Test, which had a in it (controller has less readily available slots so macros are a must at some point, even if it's just to switch hotbars during stancedances). Obviously it needs a target that way. So one more good point taken from this Guide: don't be a dumbass macroing 's in abilities that need no target xD
+Elyza Winter yea that explains it. i dont use macros haha. so i wouldnt know about that
Been waiting for this. Thanks for the great guide, my man! Really appreciate it.
I finally found my muse! After almost a year in FF as solely a tank (WAR & DRK[52]), I finally started raiding a couple weeks ago. This video is going to be great to review and advance skills I have been mastering. PARRY focused meals aren't ideal for raiding. Looks like DET and CRIT if anything. Kudos to you, adventurer. /bow
There is one thing i would suggest looking into for all Warriors, although it may result in a slight drop in DPS it may actually improve your DPS on a whole as well as your threat control due to the mechanics of the system. Consider Playing around with and utilizing Your non-essential/low duration (main order I would suggest is Brutal swing>Equilibrium>Raw Intuition>the 90 secs), to act as an animation break for Butchers block, Storms Eye and Storms path. Doing this will register the effect sooner meaning you will have the ability to utilize more time on your Berserk DPS, as well enable faster hit registration on the server side enabling higher Threat and dps on a whole. This will also enable you to help bipass some effects such as Blighted sooner to enable you to put out slightly more damage all around.
BlackenSerpent
It's been disproven that animation breaking with an OFF-GCD doesn't work. It registers the animation and the damage number sooner on your monitor but server side the original ability you animation cancelled will always come out first.
Taru TV it isn't that it speeds up the total animation time, but it does cut down the animation for BB/SE a bit, enabling it to register on the server side faster. The total animation time is the same though. This is something i was noticing happening with T13 when picking up the shadows. If this was recently fixed or changed i hadn't seen it, I was basing this off of my personal experience though. So it may not bipass effects light Blighted but it does seem to free you in some respects. I look at it in the same respects as weaving in surecast or SC for baiting your Cure/FS proxs on BLM/WHM
that ultima weapon remix from your opening is amazing
***** yea! make sure to check out bens channel in the description, he has some other cool songs as well :D
Wow. I thought i was a reasonably okish Warrior. How wrong was I! Right, back to the drawing board. Awesome video and epic tips. Thank you for the guide!
Great vid bro. This definitely will help me improve my game as WAR has been, and always will be, my main class.
+Veritas VII Warrior 4 life yo!
Dude this video kicks ass. I thought I knew warrior, sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.... now I know more.
Share this video to save a life! Thanks for the great guide, very useful information for those of us returning after being gone for a while.
Thanks for the advice. I just recently got my war to I209 and im gonna practice stance dancing and the rotations that you talked about. My main job is sch and I fairy swap when needed so the stance dancing thing is like a reminder.
Damn been waiting for this guide since 2.55
You probably already know this be there is a way to get 3 fell cleave burning only one defensive CD in a single zerk you do need more SS but as gear is u can make it. Heavy>maim>eye>heavy>skull>butchers>heavy>zerk>fell>infu>fell>maim>eye>raw>heavy>skull>butchers>fell>fracture>oωo panda
U can also weave in internal release and pot before the first cleave in which case u can apply fracture before the second eye and change the last butchers combo for another eye . Not sure if it's the most optimal dps wise but at least u save that vengeance.
Thx for the guide love your work :D
Yea that opener delays your zerk by like 15-16 sec which is really bad and could potentially make you lose an entire zerk activation for phase. People over estimate fell cleave and underestimate the power that of defensive cds i think. 20 sec of raw intuition deliverance is so much better than one zerk fell cleave
Xenosys Vex thanks for the reply as you probably already noticed I'm not a theory crafter but would there be a way to implement that as part of a rotation not as an opener? maybe maximizing effectiveness as zerk comes out of CD and also making that raw effective? I just recently got into tanking sorry if I sound dumb :p
Dayreon Waves nah you can make it part of you rotation! Like for example an easy way is the next zerk window, youll have raw intuition like 15sec behind zerk cd. So you build 4, zerk for 5th and then heavy swing FC. Continue as normal with eye>block but dont use fracture. Pop raw intuition when you can then that should be your 5th or 4th. You should have about 5sec left when FC comes up. At that point FC>infuriate>FC and it should work :D. Three FC in one zerk window while raw intuition is going
so Xeno, I've started to play WAR and I can't tell you how much your guide has helped, I'm usually the highest damage in every DF instance even while Main tanking, and I gotta say I've learned to love the amazing utility the warrior class has.
With this in mind, I have two little questions that I would like to ask you:
1. Should you try to keep the highest possible uptime on fracture? Because I see in some clips that you skip it a lot of times.
2. Is it more worthwhile to immediately convert 5 stacks of deliverance into a Fell Cleave or is it better to save them to pair with IR/Zerk etc?
Thanks again for an amazing guide, cheers! o/
+MatuShazz Hey Mat thats badass man! I always try and reapply fracture when i can unless it wont tick for the full duration or im holding it for a couple of gcd's to line it up with zerk. and always convert stacks into FC unless you are like 2 or less gcds from zerk. just save them so you can zerk triple fc right when it comes off cd. at least thats what i try and do haha
Xeno, thanks for a great guide. I appreciate the time and effort that went into this video. Thanks,
Can't thank you enough for the time and effort put onto this guide. It's improved my tanking capabilities as a warrior 120% Do you ever plan on doing a DRK guide by any chance? Also your Pally guide was legit as well. I encourage any aspiring tanks to come to these guides. :)
You Sir !, make me going back to tank with war after watching this. Thank you for the vid
Great guide! I'm curious about the potion part because I read alot of posts about using them but never say why.
mrvenoms pit it increases str, which increases damage
Hey Xeno, in the Info Box i saw you are focusing on the Ukonvasara instead of Gordian Axe. Are you not loosing too much Skillspeed?
Great Guide by the way :)
+Tim4444444 yea ukon is slightly better. and you are still able to hit the 9 hit zerk easy :D
22:51 lol!!!!!!!😂😂😂 nigga u got my side hurtin I can't stop the tears from my laughter lol!!!!
Thx for this awsome guide. I changed my main class from BLM to WAR since Heavensward and its a lot of fun. But i am not self confident enough going full STR at the moment but i am working on it. :) But Dark Knight is pretty fun to. Right now i am pretty torn between this to classes. Are you planning any DRK Guide in the future?
You are one of the sickest tanks. I normally don't even bother commenting on stuff like this, but kudos dude
This is supposed to be meant as a compliment, correct? xD
Thanks for this Xeno.
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Thank you for helping me earn my way more into Valhalla brother!
Great video. I love the commentary. I checked some of your other videos but I didn't see any macros posted. You should do a video on the macros you use, the syntax used to create them, and situations you use them in. I think something like that would be really beneficial to the community. Also it would help me "suck shit" less lol.
+Pro Fighter Hey thx man! Besides a pull macro, i dont use any macros for my abilities. I think they are really bad in all honesty because of the gcd in this game.
I made one for stance dancing you might be interested in. But with your playstyle it may not fit well. I dont want to waste your time but if you want to see it I can type it up so you can evaluate it for yourself.
Yea, a couple friends of mine used to use a macro that switches wrath abilities on their hotbar wihen defiance is activated and vice versa, but they it doesnt always activate the second you hit it. Overall i dont like macros in this game because they are sluggish and a hinderance on play
+Xenosys Vex I agree some can be sluggish, I play on PS4 so my "Real Estate" is limited more than PC players. I played with the syntax and think I may have beaten the system when it comes to sluggishness. I only use bars 1 and 2. 1 is for all of my main skills, 2 is for less used/ situational skills. just a tap to R1 to switch. All other bars are hidden. I set up bars 6 and 7 with my Tank and DPS skills respectively. The defiance macro tries to change your stance and Immediately adds those wrath skills to your bar so you dont accidentally hit steel cyclone when you need to hit decimate, and fell cleave when you mean to hit inner beast and vice versa. there is a 5 second wait built into the macro to prevent defiance from turning into deliverance prematurely, this allows you to hit the macro a second time if need be. then the macro copies your tank hotbar into bar 1 which has your deliverance swap macro in it, and changes your bar to hotbar 1 allowing you to use it. looks like this.
/micon "Defiance"
/ac "Defiance"
/crosshotbar set "Inner Beast" LD1
/crosshotbar set "Steel Cyclone" LD3
/wait 5
/crosshotbar copy WAR 7 WAR 1
/crosshotbar change 1
I use L2+Dpad up for stance changes. L2+Dpad Left for single target. L2+Dpad Right for AoE's.
The skills get replaced immediate so I cant panic smash a skill that I dont want to hit by rolling my thumb from up to left/right too quickly. the deliverance macro looks like this only difference is the bar that switches to your primary.
/micon "Deliverance"
/ac "Deliverance"
/crosshotbar set "Fell Cleave" LD1
/crosshotbar set "Decimate" LD3
/wait 5
/crosshotbar copy WAR 6 WAR 1
/crosshotbar change 1
just remember to set bars 6 and 7 appropriately and keep them hidden. let me know what you think.
yea those are almost identical to some others i have seen. Macros arent really my thing though. Always are sluggish and i use a naga, where i have 1-12 alt 1-12 and ctrl 1-12 all keybound
Thanks very much for this guide realy help me to improve my playstyle
Appreciate this video, always making me better man I thank you, hope I run into you on the server again as well
hey xeno. great guide man. i got a question for you though about internal release, infuriate, and berserk. Do you use these on cooldown or you wait for berserk? ive been asking ppl on my server and some say use them as they come but some say to save IR and infuriate for the berserk window. just wanna get your opinions on it and reasoning. again appreciate the guide man. keep fell cleaving everything lol
hey Eli, always save that shit to line up with Zerk, unless there is a part in the fight with more than a minute of downtime. If there is more than a minute than feel free to us IR and infuriate together and double FC or other stack abilities. The highest dps a warrior can do is when zerk is going, and getting as many Fell cleaves in during that window as possible.
you need to make a 4.x updated guide, this video is pretty godlike. love you stream and keep it up
Anxiously awaiting the Paladin one.
Otherwise great guide! It helped me a lot when I first watched it, I'm checking it again now that I'm more familiar with stuff.
Xeno def thanks for all your help with warrior class and for putting out another great video. i do have a question though i feel that stacking crit over det has been helping with dps more so then the other way around any thoughts on this?
Mike Fernandez yea mike i also go with crit>det. I think it is slightly better given the naturally higher crit % on WAR
thanks again for the great guide Xeno. I was wondering if you were going to make a 3.0 version and YOU DELIVERED. I have one question. It feels petty, but here goes. In your rotation at 33:50, can you reslot that first brutal swing to be between the first eye > heavy swing? I know it just hurts the soul to hold it that long but that way you get your maim on it... plus you can reuse it during pacification. your thoughts? thanks again.
jason blood Hey thx jason! nah you dont want to hold onto it because you get another activation of BS with zerk pot maim and SE so its worth it :D
been waiting for this to improve that man mode tanking! thx xeno!
what do you think about paladin and dark knight? would be nice to see a few guides for them, even if they arent as detailed seeing as how warrior seems to be your main job.
Hey great vid Xeno. I main PLD and have tried to use the advice you have given in the past to become better and so far so good. But I was wondering if you had any plans to maybe do another tanking vid about PLD?
Amazing guide. Thank you for doing it to us.
Renan Biazotti he, DID it to you? Wow he just did if for me. He must have really gave you the Warrior D.
What armor set do you have and glam it just look so awesome !
Awesome video Xeno!
Oohhh I like this video makes me actually want to take Warrior to lvl 60
It's so worth it man, coming from someone who just recently got it to 60. Easily one of my favorite classes, tied with Drg
I'd like to make a note that foresight seems to have been improved, or just scales better now. I remember it also being trash but in cursory simple testing I was seeing it reduce physical damage by about 20%. Nothing on the level of strenuous testing mind you but it seemed to be more effective than the really lame mitigation it used to feel like. Or maybe it was always like this and I just didn't notice? Either way, it seems effective for physical damage at the end of the day, albeit still not a great cooldown.
foresight gained more damage reduction becasue.our base stats went up and our defense is higher. however the enemies hit way harder as well. foresight remains pretty useless and ahould never be used alone on big cds. its damage reduction is no where near 20%. im mot sure how you tested it but its.closer to 9% which is pretty low when trying to mitigate hits that do 30k
I see, yeah I just fought some random junk in azys lla so that's probably why. I agree it's still probably junk though.
God was that the over super awsome guide ever i saw about tanking?? Im new tank and currently lvl 34 and i had many times feeling of giving up on tanking but i give myself hope. Can i use your rotations but without the abilities i didnt get yet? I hope u got what i mean
Three questions. How often does a warrior have to be healed for their stance to be triggered, and does a HoT help keep this issue in check? Second you listed Critical Hit > Block > Parry. Does that mean you can't block or parry a critical hit? Lastly do you know if Skill Speed increases HoT potency as well as DoT potency? Also thank you for this guide and for scrounging up this information.
Tristramdeliones I'm now thinking the 1st question must only happen when you stance change and that once you have been healed or hit full hp your stance is then working. Hence the combos you listed to heal your self to full HPs once switching.
Well I am impressed with this video
Loved this guide enough to like and sub. I was looking through your videos for a PvP tutorial and didn't see one. any plans for one in the future?
I miss Heavensward
i miss these old days of tanking
good video man. just wondering what the song is you've got in the bg around 41:00 - 42:00 ?
@xeno we need an up to date one of these. It was so good.
For decimate... is it best to work up a stack to double decimate or is it better to just infuriate. decimate. vengeance and raw intuition. and build a stack. perhaps i am not finding the best opportunities but the only time i remember having this is ability is when im on alex floor 2. where mobs will be up long enough to work in a decimate... perhaps my play style is a little too conservative? im going back over the guide to see where i can push out more dps. so thanks again for the guide
At least at the beginning, I feel like I'm getting a master lesson from Mike Tyson about fighting