FFXIV - Warrior DPS Opener and Rotation - 4.0 Stormblood
42Hi this is a starting warrior rotation that I came up with after a few hours with level 70 warrior. Some of the stuff can change in this depending on gear (which is pretty bad in this video), potential skill speed tiers, and the fight that you're working with. But this is what I've come up with so far. This rotation focuses on getting 4 fell cleaves in your opener, 3 of which should hit trick attack assuming it's used on the 5th gcd, and then alternating between 3 fell cleaves on non inner released berserks and 6 fell cleaves on inner released berserks.
4.0 Warrior is different from 3.0 in the sense that the gauge and swapping stances can screw you over hard. If your gauge is as 10, 30, 50, 70, or 90 DO NOT swap stances if at all possible. This is because it will make your stacks become messed up in the sense that the number you get from taking half of your bar will not be well rounded and will cause you to either continue with a messed up gauge or reach 100 gauge to re balance it. This can sometimes be alleviated by the use of inner release as fell cleaves become 25 instead of 50 so you can work with it. But I can't imagine how this would be optimal considering you always want to be at 100 gauge going into inner release and berserk anyway. So just stay away from swapping stances if the first number of your gauge is odd unless absolutely necessary.
Note* Keep an eye on your infuriate timer as it is very important in stormblood, as you can see on the second berserk window the 2 fell cleaves that you do prior to the third work to reset the cool down of infuriate opening another fell cleave up. Also be mindful of your upheaval and onslaught. Try not to over use upheaval because it will lead to loss of gauge when you need it and use onslaught as a gauge dump when building up to a berserk/inner release window so that you are not wasting gauge.
Try to get as many upheavals in berserk as possible. If you have anything to add please do so in the comments, thanks~
Skill Sequence: https://puu.sh/wqcZJ.jpg Courtesy of Joey who made the picture, his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/123aaa123aaaism
Updated rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCux0dZkqg
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