Tanking Strategies

PLD was only the best for the weak and gimps. NIN could tank most of the same mobs pld could, those it couldn't rdm/nin was better then both. Hey but they already tried to bring pld back by nerfing NIN/drk RDM/nin.

RDM/NIN was never a good tank though except very little situations so nothing important was lost.

Its was far better then crapy turtle plds, with more tools to live though most mobs. Also forgot sam can be jsut as good of a tank on old HNM then pld.

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Originally Posted by Glamdring

Pld had more hate grabbing tools, especially /war.

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Just pointing out that this is where you lost all credibility. PLD/NIN held hate better then PLD/WAR, not getting hit and a 22.5 sec flash was better then provoke/defender/flash.

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Originally Posted by MarkovChain

RDM/NIN was never a good tank.

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RDM/NIN was the best tank for any HNM.

I wish SE would step up and have the guts to do something unorthodox for once. Every other MMO has blood tanking as the main focus. Constantly avoiding DMG or taking so few DMG, kinda lessens the importance of "Healing" type jobs.

They did do something "unorthodox" and this is not other MMOs. Would be one thing if people played healing jobs as much as they play DDs.

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Originally Posted by wish12oz

Just pointing out that this is where you lost all credibility. PLD/NIN held hate better then PLD/WAR, not getting hit and a 22.5 sec flash was better then provoke/defender/flash.



RDM/NIN was the best tank for any HNM.

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Nope any melee would have been better. It has to do we casting haste dia and marches. Ffxi 101.

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Originally Posted by Cdryik

Thats why they shouldn't get access to the level cap increase from physical/magical damage but get more evasion tools or Damage tools, by giving them the :Ni version of what they are missing (jubaku, yurin, aisha, etc...), giving them also the abilities to get mark from evading an attack, release the mark to get access to à shadow buff that will absorb the next -ga spell within the next 10s. i dont know, there can be so much idea there.[/COLOR]

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FYI shadows used to absorb -ga, that's like 6 years ago, SE removed it because that time Nin was overpowered and can simply tank everything.

Not allowing other job which has /nin to use Ni shadows will just make the WHM crazy and eventually every DD/tanks are Nin.

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Originally Posted by Sama

FYI shadows used to absorb -ga, that's like 6 years ago, SE removed it because that time Nin was overpowered and can simply tank everything.

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It was always my hope that SE would un-nerf the Utsusemi update and allow shadows to absorb -agas again but only with Ninja set as a main job. Setting your sub job to ninja would result in utsusemi as it currently is.

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Originally Posted by Akujima

I wish SE would step up and have the guts to do something unorthodox for once. Every other MMO has blood tanking as the main focus. Constantly avoiding DMG or taking so few DMG, kinda lessens the importance of "Healing" type jobs.

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Wouldn't doing something most other MMOs don't do be unorthodox?