Instanced Dungeons (Alpha)

I don't think this will happen on XIV, at the beginning of the game at least, there are a ton of warriors and some paladin.

After playing tera & wow, trust me wanting to play a DD class gets very old very fast when seeking a party with dungeon finder. This robot chicken clip comes to mind when I seek party as DD after dungeon finder first went into full effect on those games and slowly saw the reality of it(as a dps/dd).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Z3lmidmrY

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Originally Posted by Warlock

http://i.imgur.com/4UiFU.gif

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We may not see eye to eye on every issue, but that was pretty funny I must admit.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Bound to happen cause you have like 90% of the population wanting to play dps, and the other 10% playing tank or healer.

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im so lucky to be the person who like to tank/heal xD

My hope is you won't have to be a TANK role to actually tank. Perhaps jobs with heavy armor can tank, although not as effectively as jobs designed to TANK. Same with healers. Otherwise there is bound to be a shortage since there is only 1 dedicated healer at the moment and the armoury system forces traditional white magic (Cure, Protect, Regen, etc) into WHM-specific thereby not allowing other roles to use it. Guess that all could change with rebalancing.

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Originally Posted by Gidonoidon_Sur

My hope is you won't have to be a TANK role to actually tank. Perhaps jobs with heavy armor can tank, although not as effectively as jobs designed to TANK. Same with healers. Otherwise there is bound to be a shortage since there is only 1 dedicated healer at the moment and the armoury system forces traditional white magic (Cure, Protect, Regen, etc) into WHM-specific thereby not allowing other roles to use it. Guess that all could change with rebalancing.

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God, I hope not. This is the current issue with XI. Paladin is on the backburner because every other melee job short of DRK is capable of tanking a good majority of the content. And SE refuses to give PLD any sort of true, comparable DD potential out of fear of making it immortal and broken. (Which is a fair argument considering the capabilities of XI PLD).

I'd rather WAR and PLD be the specific tanks and the only ones capable of tanking things.

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Originally Posted by Alerith

God, I hope not. This is the current issue with XI. Paladin is on the backburner because every other melee job short of DRK is capable of tanking a good majority of the content. And SE refuses to give PLD any sort of true, comparable DD potential out of fear of making it immortal and broken. (Which is a fair argument considering the capabilities of XI PLD).

I'd rather WAR and PLD be the specific tanks and the only ones capable of tanking things.

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Totally agreed. Games that don't necessitate a specific tank class normally suck big time and have battles that lack depth in a major way.


On a side note, good to see that they brought Mindflayers back.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Totally agreed. Games that don't necessitate a specific tank class normally suck big time and have battles that lack depth in a major way.


On a side note, good to see that they brought Mindflayers back.

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This is one of the few things i don't like about SE...they refuse to accept the Tank concept of other games that keep a monster's attention 100% no matter what...

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Originally Posted by Warlock

This is one of the few things i don't like about SE...they refuse to accept the Tank concept of other games that keep a monster's attention 100% no matter what...

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Well having this ability makes a good tank... it promotes mediocre players to practice and become great players...

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Originally Posted by Warlock

This is one of the few things i don't like about SE...they refuse to accept the Tank concept of other games that keep a monster's attention 100% no matter what...

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I like fighting for my hate quite fun.