war invites vs others...

[LordBiGGs]

i was wondering what invites were like for war's at mid (40-50 or so) to high level's (60+). i enjoy playing war for the versatility, sometimes tanking, sometimes dd, so i wanna know what invites are like for a war compared to other jobs. mostly compared to a melee dd.

[Uroboros]

My first job was RDM and my second was WAR. My invites when I wasn't in set parties on WAR were on par with my RDM's invites. This, while watching DRK and DRG and MNK friends sit around in Jeuno crying. So yeah, from people who know what WAR can do (everything) the invites are frequent, especially once you develop a reputation.

[Russta]

Originally posted by Uroboros
So yeah, from people who know what WAR can do (everything) the invites are frequent, especially once you develop a reputation.

On three seperate occasions now I have had my Bard flagged and been invited to tank as my Warrior while having no mention of it in my search comment.

[Tomatoes]

Yellow Dot: Hey, can you tank for us?
Me: Well, I'd really rather do DD at the moment.
Yellow Dot: Please man, we just need a tank, we already have 5.
Me: Ahh, well, okay, for a level or so.

2hrs later...

Yellow Dot: Okay, our DD has to go.
Me: Ohh, I can DD! :D
Yellow Dot: Nah, you're doing fine as tank.
Me: But, but, but....
Yellow Dot: Good news everybody, I found somebody to replace!
Me: /cry

Rinse, repeat... :spin:

As for frequency of invites, I tend not to be LFG very long. Maybe lucky, maybe it's the job, I dunno.

[Uroboros]

Once you get 55/60+ you'll be DDing and tanking simultaneously, maybe you'll enjoy yourself a little more then.

[LadyPeorth]

55/60 you'll tank and DD at same time...if you're a WAR/NIN. I still tell everyone "I can tank, but it'll be chain 2 or 3 at most...unless you got bard in which case chain 4 is very possible". Do they listen? Nope. Keep praying and hoping...all I gotta say

[Seldzar]

Hmm I get invites pretty frequently most of the time (between about lvl 40 till now(53)) but there can be a few hours I go without an invite. It used to be the moment I logged on or within a few minutes of changing jobs to war I would get a pt invite without even putting up my flag.

I don't like tanking too much at this lvl and I put in my comment Tank (no thanks) Back up ok. to see if my invites would get any slower, as it seems I either die, become an MP sink for the mages and/or cant play to my full DD potential without causing myself to take heaps of damage myself when I tank. I preffer to be a back up tank to a nin or pld, normally in pts I've done that we can get higher chains with less down time. Anyway this didn't actually effect my invite frequency that much at all. Might try tanking post 60. >.>

[Ariagiovanni]

A lot of people realize the potential of warriors when they're levelling their first main job around 65+. That's when I learned about it. Before then I could honestly give a rat's ass about warriors and thought they were third-rate tanks.

Unfortunately, people like me (at the time) still exist and don't know what warriors can really pull of. If you build a good reputation as everyone says then it will be no problem at all.

Also, tanking is no fun passed 50 and everyone seems to think warriors like it

[Uroboros]

Originally posted by Ariagiovanni
A lot of people realize the potential of warriors when they're levelling their first main job around 65+. That's when I learned about it. Before then I could honestly give a rat's ass about warriors and thought they were third-rate tanks.

Unfortunately, people like me (at the time) still exist and don't know what warriors can really pull of. If you build a good reputation as everyone says then it will be no problem at all.

Totally agree. On RDM as first job I partied with three WARs -ever- (one I exp'd with a lot mid 50s, one a little bit early 60s, and a 75 JP WAR tanked my Miser Murphy and Guardian AF3 fights flawlessly). But it was enough to make me love the utility of the class, and the rarity is a nice bonus too; it's also quite nice occasionally blowing peoples' expectations and preconceptions away.

Also, tanking no fun? ; ; WAR damage tanking is more fun than anything IMO. I tanked a large amount of the time from 55 to 75. I was always in statics with a bard and other competent players though, tanking pickup groups...uh, no thanks.

[Eabe]

i wait less than an hour for a pt usually as 53 war/nin