Grit Teeth Tactical - Guardian/Juggernaut

Do you mind if I ask what was your character name? I was also on SF last night and might have been in your games.

I was able to play 7 ranked matches last night on SF. Went 5-2 (one loss was a thrown match). Overall, I was very pleased. I was able to use the tactical several times in matches. It all about blowing your FD/ED first and then managing your other defensive cd's to be able to use Grit as quick as possible again. Undying was extremely helpful also. The 20% dmg reduction was noticeable in the matches. Six seconds in ranked is an eternity.

Dmg was not an issue either. The one match I looked stupid in was vs two sorcs, a pt, and an op. They absolutely wrecked me....

Not at all, I was on Pepe'Nero …..she has been the toon I have been working on all this with.

Do you combine the 20% DR with something else like Warzone Adrenal for a total of 35% DR?

We didn't have a game together, but I watched several games that you were in through twitch and discord streams. I did not watch very close enough to comment however. I was mostly raging at getting skipped for 2 matches in a row.

GL with your games. Hope everything works out.

DR is not additive. It is multiplicative. 20% + 15% DR does not equal 35%. But its a small technicality.

Interesting. Do you combine the 20% DR with something else like Warzone Adrenal for a total of 35% DR?

Is this specific for Warzone Adrenal? On my sniper using Hololocate with tactical + Imperial Preparation with utility I get 15% DR + 15% DR directly added to my active DR.

You have to take dmg to get it to proc again, so I have been using all defenses and stim to make sure that happens. The longer you are able to stay up the greater chance you will be able to use it again, and again, and again.

I know regs is not the same as ranked, but I just wanted to mention even in regs (as a jugger tank) I find it best to use grit teeth pretty much the same way you are talking about. That is, (just like they say for voting! ) ... early and often. I even find myself preferring to leave grit teeth on, instead of life warden, because it seems more useful. Maybe in ranked LW's one use is more helpful during a single round, but I find that for a long match, I hardly ever get out of combat, so I can't swap LW out after it's used up until I die anyway. And then I'm so focused on rushing back in that most of the time I forget to swap it out. And grit teeth seems to proc ED so fast anyway (and in regs I can pretty much count on someone hitting me with a dot to heal me up. )

Also, I wanted to just say "thanks" for putting your experiences in this thread. So rare to find people trying things out in ranked and making it into a good discussion. Kudos!