WAR is the way

BLM:75 WHM:75 SMN:47 THF:75 WAR:75 RNG:44 DRK:39

Even though I like to play WHM a great deal and though it is usually safer to walk to various distant places in the game like you see here in the picture, I like to play WAR.

It's funny but usually as WAR/DRK even though it takes forever to get an invite, I usually perform better than most other jobs. That's in no small part to the unlocked Subduer GSD. It has better stats than even the Perdu Sword. That with the Claymore grip gives me a total of 9% additional Critical hits. I maxed out my 4% critical merits so now that gives me a total of 13%.

If I maxed out my Attack with gear and everything my Attack goes up to 610 which pretty much close to the max. I could add maybe another 12 attack in earrings but I need the ones I have for their Accuracy.

In a party setting, I usually will hit for 250 and 300 damage per swing. With that much damage I might as well not even use the weaponskill. The Ground Strike weaponskill gives that much more damage. In fact, I have had to use -enmity to limit the hate I take cuz Last Resort is almost like Flash for some reason. The monster sometimes turns before I even hit him just by using the ability(DRK ability). Souleater has the same effect. Sometimes just to spike damage I will throw out Souleater for the weaponskill only, but if I have a overkill healing setup, like WHM and RDM/WHM, I will use it to build TP which takes my damage up into the 300s.

[Edit: I have found that using Souleater with weaponskill doesnt add to it cuz if you look at your HP, it won't go down, and WAR hands relic gives +2 enmity so I am starting to stop using them and stick with Mermans Mitts which I used to use with THF for the one extra STR and 3 DEX]

I use the Trooper ring which you can get from the sanction guy. It gives -4 enmity which is good cuz the Boots and the Hands relic gear that I use each give +1 enmity. to further boost -enmity I can equip the Spectral Belt which gives another -4 enmity but usually it's not necessary cuz there's always some guy out there with Uber gear taking hate with /NIN.

You would think that I would envy them for that but it's actually funny to note that the other day, because there were no tanks, I decided to go /WHM so that we could get out there and party and lo and behold another WAR popped but he was /NIN so I invite him and we all go out and you know something, two WARs as tanks is not a bad setup. We still got plenty of WS off and got like 20k exp that night. We got lucky, and I was /WHM using Blink!

Things are calming down at work and today is the big Superbowl day so I am going over to my sister's house and watching it there. I am going for the Steelers but I really just hope it's a good game.