Is the Final Coil ready for carnage? Or is your Warrior gonna get carnaged!? Warrior Best in Slot is here! If you’re looking for a DPS tanking set – you’ve come to the right place. I placed the BiS for tanking DPS in the Warrior page for (admittedly controversial) reasons, but alas this has to be done.
Tank BiS disclaimer: Do you need parry, or do you need to DPS? If you’re interested in the parry counterpart, check out the PLD BiS. It’s still functional for warrior.
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WAR BiS & Options | WAR Poetics Buy Order
| WAR | DPS BiS | - | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Ragnarok Zeta | ||
| Off-hand | OR Dreadwyrm Bardiche | - | |
| Head | Ironworks Helm of Fending | ||
| Body | Dreadwyrm Armor of Fending | ||
| Hand | Dreadwyrm Gauntlets of Fending | ||
| Waist | Augmented Ironworks Belt of Fending | ||
| Legs | Dreadwyrm Sarouels of Fending | ||
| Boots | Ironworks Sabatons of Fending | ||
| Neck | Platinum Scarf of Slaying | ||
| Ears | Platinum Earrings of Fending | ||
| Wrist | Platinum Bangles of Slaying | ||
| Ring | Platinum Ring of Slaying | ||
| Ring | Platinum Ring of Slaying | ||
| Food | Flint Caviar Steamed Catfish |
Platinum Accessory melding for DPS Tanks
| Accessory | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platinum Scarf of Slaying | VIT IV | VIT IV | *DET | *DET | VIT III |
| Platinum Earrings of Fending | STR IV | STR IV | *DET | *DET | STR III |
| Platinum Bangles of Slaying | VIT IV | VIT IV | *DET | *DET | VIT III |
| Platinum Ring of Slaying | VIT IV | VIT IV | *DET | *DET | VIT III |
| Platinum Ring of Slaying | VIT IV | VIT IV | *DET | *DET | VIT III |
| (Caps) CRIT/ACC/SS: 19 | VIT: 21 | STR: 18 | DET: 13 |
Melds marked with an asterisk are *Interchangeable to any stat.
The above BiS list, incluing melds, are lacking 46 Accuracy to harcdcap at 558. This 46 Accuracy can be obtained from many sources. Feel free to mix, match and add to whatever suits your current situation.
Melding: Any non-main stat meld (NOT STR or NOT VIT) can be easily swapped from DET to ACC. (Marked by an asterisk in the above table)
Ragnarok Zeta: Can hold a maximum of 53 Accuracy, if you so choose.
Food: Realistically we cannot maximize the % of some accuracy food. But you could comfortably gain a sizable amount.
Lazy? Switch pants: The Augmented Ironworks legs give 47 Accuracy, putting you at cap pre-food.
2.4 WAR Poetics Tomes Buy Order
Wondering what Warriors (or any DPS tank) buy with Poetics tomes? Here’s a good setup:
- Ironworks Head (Dread T12)
- Ironworks Boots (Dread T10)
- Ironworks Belt (Dread T12)
- Everything else is optional
- Ironworks Legs: A great filler for a one-hit accuracy fix.
- Any other Ironworks body piece
- Ironworks Slaying Accessories
- Ironworks Fending Accessories
Warriors would want to get the Poetics weapon VERY LATE, as you will need a massive amount of tomes + T11 tome drop + t12 carbontwine for it to be significantly better than HA Blade. These drops are far more important for DPS in the first weeks.
Spending poetics on left side first is extremely viable since the raw +DEF and +MDEF (+VIT and +STR too) heavily outweight accessory purchases.
2.4 WAR Crafted Gear Viability
The 110 Crafted Accessories are currently BiS in terms of value, and their melds are discussed in the above table. For newer tanks/alts here’s a rundown of the body pieces. Again melds with * are “free slots”.
Cost Effective Wootz Melds for DPS Tanking (110 Crafted)
| Wootz DPS Melds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wootz Sallet | DET IV | ACC IV | *Any ACC or CRIT | *Any ACC or CRIT | *Any ACC or CRIT |
| Wootz Cuirass | DET IV | DET IV | *DET ANY | CRIT III | CRIT III |
| Wootz Mitten Gauntlets | DET IV | DET IV | *DET or ACC | *DET or ACC | *DET or ACC |
| Wootz Plate Belt | CRIT IV | CRIT IV | *SS ANY | *SS ANY | DET III |
| Kirimu Breeches of Fending | ACC IV | ACC IV | *CRIT>ACC ANY | *CRIT>ACC ANY | *CRIT>ACC ANY |
| Wootz Sabatons | DET IV | DET IV | *ACC or DET ANY | *ACC or DET ANY | *ACC or DET ANY |
Which Wootz crafted pieces should DPS warriors get first? Chest, Legs and Belt are ridiculously good. Since Belt BiS is Ironworks, you can skip this. Chest and Belt are T13 and 12 respectively so you can get a lot of mileage outta these. The rest are purely luxury pieces (And Ironworks takes up BiS on many of those pieces anyway).
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Goodluck gearing up your Warrior! Remember this is a DPS tank set, and can work for any tank class. If you’re lookin’ for parry head on over to the PLD BiS.
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/T1SK
Is this not better?
That set swaps some crit for DET and is closer to acc cap. Pretty good if you’re willing to go that route!
Small nit: the 245 Axe is called “Midan Metal Axe” not “Prototype Midan Metal Axe” :)
Why do you want so much SS? I can get 3 fell cleves in a berserk without that much and SS is the weakest stat for WAR. It makes no sense for me. Plisu explain.
I’ve gotten mixed reactions on that. It really depends on latency, I guess. I calculate this with “safety” “mechanics” and “150+~” latency. Feel try to try it and see what’s best for you given progression, since when “farming” these little things will be IRRELEVANT.
It’s only difference is TWO items: chest and neck so why not try it out, ey?
Thx, but there is a small error when body recommend, it stand as gloves ;-)
Ok fixing!!!!
3.2 chest piece is linked to the gloves of fending FYI
thanks for pointing it out!!! fixed!
Since 3.1 offer the ‘Void ark belt of fending’ that provide us with the skills speed needed to equip the ‘Gordian plate mail of fending’ instead of the ‘Ravagers Cuirasse’ and still have the 590 SS. I think the Bis for Warrior as change a little. Here what I got : http://imgur.com/gOsPwLt .
Give me your opinion and have a good day :D
Regarding gear swaps for 590 SS – there are literally dozens of possible iterations!
Update for 3.1?
Not officially, but literally the only change is various pieces of mistbreak gear (210 diadem).
this doesnt account for warrior’s skillspeed needs. first and foremost, theres the obvious 9 zerk cap, which really isnt hard to meet because its not far from base, but at 2.40gcd (590 sks minimum) you have 100% uptime on maim, and can do the triple fell cleave opener with using only raw intuition, instead of needing both raw and vengance.
This is addressed in the options discussion, thanks for the input!