Paladin - Helping to return it to top tank

[Arcon]

[..] 1) They don't have enough Red/Blue/Grellow procs on their own to be a valuable unit in Abyssea [..]

Just wanted to point out that PLD natively has more red and blue procs than both MNK and NIN (and any other job except for WAR for that matter), only beaten in red procs by NIN/WAR, and subbing NIN it has even more grellow procs than both.

[Greatguardian]

Just wanted to point out that PLD natively has more red and blue procs than both MNK and NIN (and any other job except for WAR for that matter), only beaten in red procs by NIN/WAR, and subbing NIN it has even more grellow procs than both.

You can't look at things in a vacuum.

NIN + PLD = Missing Shadow of Death.

WAR + PLD = Missing Tachi: Koki, Tachi: Jinpu, Blade: Ei

It doesn't matter how many Procs PLD has if you're requiring 3 people to complete your set.

The same can be said for grellow:

PLD/NIN + BLM/BRD + BLU = Missing Banishga 2

WHM + BLM/BRD + BLU/NIN is the only complete 3-man Grellow team. Even if you have a PLD there, you would need a WHM anyways so you are not saving any space at all. PLD Red and PLD Grellow are redundant.

Edit: @Above, Just an fyi, MNK thrives on multiple foes. Before I finished my Staff skill grind for Cataclysm, I was easily able to tank 15+ Abyssea mobs at a time on MNK by pulling them into a niche (forcing them to line up) and countering them all to death.

[Nepharite]

WAR + PLD = Missing Tachi: Koki, Tachi: Jinpu, Blade: Ei

just nitpicking here, but war/sam can do jinpu with gear/merits using the event GK