Considering taking up WARFollow

First question: Do you have cat pants already from your time as NIN?

Kitty pants are one of those items that I just never ended up getting, though I could buy them from a merc LS (although, whether anyone still mercs sky, I have no idea). Would that make a difference for WAR vs MNK, or just between those vs others?

I could revive my RDM, it still has a lot of r/ex gear. I burned myself out on it badly, but that was years ago now, so perhaps I could enjoy it again. The thinking behind BLM or SCH was that I've got a whole bunch of jobs that are all-rounders/hybrids. I'd like a job that is undeniably good at something, and I think I would like to deal good damage for once.

Perhaps I'll level a few subs a bit further, to see whether I particularly enjoy one of them more than others, or whether I prefer dealing magic or physical damage.

The current best gear for WAR includes Kitty Pants.


Perle is a very (*very*) good set, but it isnt end-all be all. But the thing is: to move away from perle and onto better stuff you will need kitty pants.

Problem is: the other stuff you are going to need to be better than perle are quite hard to get. Essentialy, you need kitty and one of these:

Adaberk
Nocturnus
Dusk +1s
Speed belt


So, for now, perle will be a very good set for you. Later on when you start looking to upgrade from perle you will want those kitty pants.

On the other hand, they are by far the best leg pieces NIN can get for TP AND WS.

Bzzzzzt, Monk can tank anything NIN can with the right support.


Everything else Luci said is correct though.

Well what do I know, I'm only a level 75 noob MNK now. F*cking level cap rise...

in respect to versatility, mnk would be on par or greater than war. I would say mnk>war as a tank and in zerg style play. For exp/merits just do abyssea and then u don't have to worry about it. For nyzul/assaults missions war or mnk prolly wouldn't make a dif, same w/ dyna. But for lowman nm's I'd take a mnk over a war almost everytime.

The reason I would pick war over mnk is the ease at which you could get gear. You could pick up 5/5perle for 150k but kitty pants, usukane/fuma/poise/denali feet, ochi/usukane/aurore hands, usukane/cobra/shura body are all much more expensive than the whole perle set. Swift belt is now incredibly easy to obtain while brown/black will cost u a good bit more. Everything else is pretty similar in difficulty to obtain. Although thew is more expensive than fire bomblet atm.

But for the events that you mentioned, as long as ur a skillfull player, any job that has an incling of ability to tank will do just fine.

I also just finished blm to 80 and blm/rdm w/ convert is teh sex and u don't even have to solo 70-80. If u have nice friends u could go 30-80 in abyssea/absurdia :) sch is prolly better for everything else u wanna do since it can double as whm.

I've noticed that in many situations warrior is not the absolute best physical DD, but there are no situations where warrior sucks (as long as you can use physical DD).

Warrior is just a damn solid job. The ja's it does use last a long time and have long recasts and the rest are job traits. It doesn't use magic (save /nin utsu). This gives you a certain stability against amnesia and silence; debuffs that can cripple other DDs.

People like having a back up provoke, even in abyssea. I've wound up tanking (well, as much as you do tank in abyssea) while the pld was weakened. I've also back up tanked in Dynamis. It just falls to the warrior. If you get a party using SATA you can be the trick partner. If the puller bails you put on the combat caster's boomerang +1 and you're the puller.

The only real downside, in my opinion, is that it is a fairly simple job to play. I use maybe 7 macros for each different sj. I've had times when I've gone 30-40 seconds without pushing a button. Oh, and warrior can't solo for crap unless you are /dnc with a multihit weapon (I use Kindred Axe). At least, I've never been able to get it to solo without /dnc + multihit.

Never thought I'd see the day.

Speaking as a fellow DRG, I'd disagree so much -- it's a merit monkey that's good at traditional endgame, but in anything that doesn't let you get up close and personal with a given mob, it seriously sucks arse. Don't go there.

I solo'd my club skill all the way to cap before the level cap raise. Horrent Mace + Koenig shield, /dnc, vs steelshells. Capped my shield skill on war while I was at it. I swear, when I got them, I never thought I'd love the my AF hands as much as I do