Yoshi P's Stance on Pld

[Freyyy]

I see you never actually played FFIV prior to the GBA remake because you would know that Lightbringer is an overpowered post-game remake only bonus weapon instead of anything used in the actual game. Any use of it outside of the added post-game content is the equivalent of doing Praetorium in full Dreadwyrm.

I only played the GBA and PSP versions, but what I was trying to say is that Paladins in older FFs have always been dealing massive damage while being the tankiest job. Cecil was the most obvious example, even with other swords he was still kicking asses during the entirety of the game. For me the fact that in XIV, tanks are able to do 75% of a DPS's DPS comes from that. It's the "Final Fantasy" spirit. The "holy trinity" is there, but not super strict like in any other MMOs. You are allowed to actually play your job at its fullest by breaking the limits of its role. That's how I see it.

And I highly doubt that A3S/A4S were intended to be taken down at i205 with full VIT tanks and full time tanking stance. Getting to i205 with only Esoteric gear, A1S and A2S loots takes a lot of time and I don't think SE intended half the fights to be done several weeks/months after the release of the content. And even with a full group of i205 people, if your tanks are wearing VIT shit and never switching to DPS stance outside of when OTing, you're gonna have a hard time meeting the DPS checks even with high healer DPS. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but you're gonna have a really hard time and you gotta have really good DPSs. Believe me or not, but the difference in raid DPS between a group with low to no tank DPS and a group with high tank DPS is huge. And even with high tank DPS, people struggled and still struggle meeting the DPS checks. Soooo... Yeah. Good luck with VIT tanks.