Gladiator

[Grey Jorildyn]

Oh, and trying to incap GB's legs with RLII is a huge waste of time and MP. Just get Flashfreeze and you're good to go. It downs him everytime it lands.

And maybe it's just me, but Taunt isn't very powerful compared to Provoke II. It seems like a waste of stamina when we have so main glad main abilities to fill an entire 60s rotation, and all of them already use half bar.

Edit: oh and I am correcting myself from last post. I have found something like cure cheat. Oh it's gonna be great! Gotta test first!

[Aratharn]

Oh, and trying to incap GB's legs with RLII is a huge waste of time and MP. Just get Flashfreeze and you're good to go. It downs him everytime it lands.

But I'm doing 38 damage!

[Blackdreamr]

For Buffalo's blast I generally save Warmonger for it. If you have enough LNC using Twisting Vice it doesn't use it that often (and if you are Flash freezing)

Buffalo is great for threat without vokes because you don't generally need to use any defensive cooldowns and have bonus stamina. The meele get hit for more so the mages are really more trying to keep them up instead of you.

I think THM's end up pulling the most, they always stack so many abilitys ontop of shadowsear :3

Right now there isn't much to tanking though, use provokes, heal for firm conviction. Block / Phalanx is best dps if you aren't trying to incapacitate anything since its free stamina and does the same damage to NMs as your other WS's if you aren't going into the BR's. Light Slash is also > Heavy Slash for whatever reason on NM's, which is opposite of normal mobs. My light slash typically does 40-50, and heavy stab 25-35. Luminous Spire is another good option as it doesn't miss, and creates a small amount of AE threat.

But again these NMs are so easy half of what you do doesn't matter too much, find your own style!

[BerenTebogo]

Haven't played GLA since November. Not familiar with what they've changed / haven't changed. Is it still worth it to spam stamina on keeping guard up or do we just use the stamina on hate abilities / WS now only?

[Grey Jorildyn]

Nothing has changed in regards to stamina cost. Just use Guard and Deflection sometimes. Fuck Aegis Boon II. Tank or DPS, not both.

[BerenTebogo]

So do you keep Guard up 100%? Not familiar with deflection. Been playing ARC since I've been back lol

[Grey Jorildyn]

I hardly do... In fact I admit I don't play GLA much anymore since I have THM and MRD is almost 50 now. When I do tank, it's always Great Buffalo, and I do keep Guard up 90%+ of the time for Phalanx procs, but my role in that fight is to keep hate and perform KDs with FF2. When it's prone most of the time, there isn't much tanking to do, just hate handling really.

[Black]

do you need wind element at 55 to make knight bread taste Delicious ?

[Grey Jorildyn]

Yeah, but you can make it as high as 62 or as low as 48.

[Kenshiin]

A few of my LS tanks feel that it's best to only spam Phalanx II for hate gain. Or should they be using the other hate gaining abilities instead like Raging Strike, Ferocity, Hawk eye, etc.?

[Grey Jorildyn]

I did that months ago but it's just silly. Phalanx will miss a LOT. Should be using accomplice, provoke, warmonger, and war drum. Accomplice is amazing over the course of a fight. I'll throw my basic tanking guide up somewhere public at some point.

[Kenshiin]

Do you just use Accomplice on just anyone near you?

[Grey Jorildyn]

No, I personally have a system. Accomplice either goes on the THM if they're spamming DoTs (which builds shitload of hate) or the melee who wields the weapon that has the damage type a mob is weak to (in short: generally an archer or lancer).

edit: i'll post my guide on my blog, just give me a few minutes to convert the bbcode to html so syndication works.

edit2: Here ya go: http://www.impact-gaming.us/blogs/grey/?p=56

[Kenshiin]

Thanks Grey. There's a lot of good information to take in on there.

[Grey Jorildyn]

You're welcome.

[Kenshiin]

Grey, I wanted to pick your brain about why do you want to use Heavy Stab over Heavy Slash when our swords are mostly slashing damage?

[Corrderio]

Is there even a difference between slash/stab? They seem to do the same damage no matter what weapon I use.

[Tamjin]

dependent on what mob you use it on. Like a crab slashing > stab

edit: also it might just be me but it seems like stab has more accurate than slashing in general. Havent done any testing on this though. Might just be me seeing things lol

[Grey Jorildyn]

Stab does seem to have a higher base accuracy than our other basic attacks. It also uses less stamina than heavy slash so that's another reason to use it. Of course none of that will matter soon anyway.

[sceptre]

Do you just use Accomplice on just anyone near you?

i always start on the THM and with the CD being so low i go on Healer if we have Conj, if only THM healing and Dot etc then i stay on the THM for a while and let the melee build more threat.
Then mid way fight i start to rotate in the melee dps near me but always going back to THM.