Enmity

[Martel]

Dale,

I already stated that I misunderstood your stance on cures. Clearly you could not be advocating the use of cure kit spam when you don't understand what a cure kit is. Despite my having explained it twice.

To ensure I'm not misinterpreting anything else I'll lay out what I've understood about your image of PLD as a healer/tank. If you find any of this to be inaccurate, please correct it, and explain in more detail.

The healer/tank:

Blood tanks.
Cures when damaged.
TP's and ws's normally, but does not gear for DD.
I assume idles in PDT/DEF/VIT gear?
Subjob preference? I don't think it was stated aside from not /nin.
Policy on gear swaps?
Has no trouble holding hate, off DD that restrain themselves properly.
Anyone who disagrees with these points should go play mnk or nin?

Again please correct any misunderstandings on my part about this.

I'm also rather curious about the experiences that drive and support your play style. Could we hear a bit about your pld history?

Perhaps a bit on your:
NM/HNM tanking experience.
Event tanking(Dynamis,Limbus,Einhejar,etc)
NM solo.

Lastly, I recall you mentioned not having powerful atma yet. Can I then assume, that you have not personally experienced high end Abyssea PLD DD? Do the DD amongst your LS mates/friends also lack powerful atma?

[Dale]

Dale,

I already stated that I misunderstood your stance on cures. Clearly you could not be advocating the use of cure kit spam when you don't understand what a cure kit is. Despite my having explained it twice.

To ensure I'm not misinterpreting anything else I'll lay out what I've understood about your image of PLD as a healer/tank. If you find any of this to be inaccurate, please correct it, and explain in more detail.

The healer/tank:

Blood tanks.
Cures when damaged.
TP's and ws's normally, but does not gear for DD.
I assume idles in PDT/DEF/VIT gear?
Subjob preference? I don't think it was stated aside from not /nin.
Policy on gear swaps?
Has no trouble holding hate, off DD that restrain themselves properly.
Anyone who disagrees with these points should go play mnk or nin?

Again please correct any misunderstandings on my part about this.

I'm also rather curious about the experiences that drive and support your play style. Could we hear a bit about your pld history?

Perhaps a bit on your:
NM/HNM tanking experience.
Event tanking(Dynamis,Limbus,Einhejar,etc)
NM solo.

Lastly, I recall you mentioned not having powerful atma yet. Can I then assume, that you have not personally experienced high end Abyssea PLD DD? Do the DD amongst your LS mates/friends also lack powerful atma?

Thank you for not splitting apart my post, I appreciate that

I'm not going to get into specific details about my paladin because I don't want this discussion to turn into a conversation about me. I like to keep things general.

I have no problem with paladins who want to gear for more damage. I have done it myself on occasion. My problem is when a paladin sees himself as nothing but a damage dealer, and refuses to use his cure spell, focusing all of his efforts into doing more damage.

When a Paladin starts behaving like that I feel they would be better off playing a different job. And people who play like that and fuss at SE because they can't compete with jobs built to do nothing but damage are mostly the people i'm telling should go play monk or warrior.

If you don't want to make healing an important part of your gameplay and instead focus entirely on doing as much damage as you can - I think probably the Paladin just isn't the job you should be playing. There are better job choices out there for that kind of gameplay. That's all i'm saying.