Quote Originally Posted by Mithlas View Post
Is there any current engdame content or NM that are designed around a PLD or RUN not having RME?

I see that there are many ilvl shields, but they are pretty moot and no one gives them a glance or considers taking a PLD if he does not have Aegis or Ochain. Is that simply because all of the item level shields completely suck, or that content cannot be done without?
Any? Yeah most of the highest stuff pretty much need that. In theory you could possibly maybe get enough support to allow decent survivability without it... but adding more players causes hp to increase so dramatically that that can by itself make you fail. Not to mention you are shifting a burden onto gearing of the support namely getting those geos to have more potent spells. And your tank still might die because some of these nms are pretty brutal

That said pup can offer similar levels of durability so that's also an option. At least on things that don't use tactics that make pets not useful (such as doom or adds going after popper instead of tank etc)