Quote Originally Posted by Zagen View Post
Okay effectively mitigate damage from 1 element at a time. Hell your own example shows how RUN could poorly reduce the damage of up to 4 types of magic for 3/5 minutes. Someone mentioned Abyssea earlier and honestly that's the only place where RUN can tank based on what it currently has as native defensive capabilities. Yay a tank for 3 year old content...

Nothing a RUN currently has to offer is of any value as a tank, dd, or support when compared to other jobs filling those roles.

It's a fun job but that sure as hell doesn't make it magically work at what we were told it was going to do. The job is lacking sorely and if it was supposed to be a magical tank it sure as hell should be more useful than an Aegis PLD (I'm not even talking full time -87.5% MDT for a given element).
It works fine to tank any level 99 content, not just abyssea. It also deals a lot more damage while doing so than an Aegis PLD. Also for that great -MDT, a PLD needs 23% -MDT from gear other than the shield. A RUN only needs -14%. So you can cap it with 2 rings.

If once we get merits, AF, relic and empy gear we're still completely useless to tank in SoA, then SE has made terrible errors, but until then I'll hold out hope.

Also, an Aegis (at today's prices) costs at least 130mil to get to 99. I'm pretty sure that after spending 130 mil on RUN, it would be much better.