Aegis > RUN

[Zagen]

The trouble that I have with everyone comparing run to an Aeigis PLD... is that Aegis is a relic.

The thing is it takes Aegis for a PLD to call itself a good tank against magical damage or rather a "magical tank" you know what RUN was pitched to be. On top of not only mitigating a good amount of magical damage the fact that the shield is a size 5 with 60-70% block rate goes pretty far in reducing all physical damage taken something RUN can't do.

I agree that we needed ACP boss type mobs, though I think that was non-elemental damage. Even if we're both remembering the mechanics incorrectly RUN needed a mob that deals elemental magic damage and not non-elemental when meleeing to be worth anything.

It's like SE has no communication between the job design team and the end game design team which is odd considering FFXI is run by a skeleton crew atm and those design decisions were likely made by some of the same people. I mean who came up with Gabbrath family and decided it's melee would be physical damage instead of fire element magic damage? Almost as though SE wanted RUN to fail as a magical tank.

Maybe we're the naive ones expecting RUN to be worth anything as a tank without it's mythic weapon since it won't be getting a relic or emp weapon.

I'm not reading the rest of this thread (stopped 5-6 posts in).

I'm so, so terribly sorry your new job without it's JSE and merits isn't as good as a fully geared job with a RELIC item.

Get real, guys.

It's not as good as any job at any role... Aegis PLD was used because that's what you look at when you need a tank that can eat a lot of magical damage and RUN was pitched as a magical tank.

GEO says hi. No Artifact/Relic/Emp/Mythic and already has places in small and large man groups. Maybe you should have actually read the whole thread as this has been pointed out already.