PLD cant even hold the aggro for Alexander savage ...

[Martin_Arcainess]

Well then, how high do your people that play dps, dps for then?

Personally, I have a blm in my group that bursts up to 2500-3000dps at the start of a fight, till they calm down to thier normal 1700-1900dps.

She puts on STR gear, not all of it but enough so her HP is about 16K and she pops STR potion with fight or flight. We don't have BLM's in my static, we have 2 SMSN, MNK and NIN.

[Isius]

She puts on STR gear, not all of it but enough so her HP is about 16K and she pops STR potion with fight or flight. We don't have BLM's in my static, we have 2 SMSN, MNK and NIN.

I wear 3 pentamelds, and 2 ilvl210 str accesories. Slowly replacing my stuff with ilvl210 str stuff. But atm I really do not dare to start out in Sword Oath in a pull with my BLM spiking that high. I just let my DRK co-tank do the start up on aggro instead, since Drk gets less of a dps loss in Grit versus Paladin, and Drk generates more aggro anyways. While I dps during that time period, and I do pop pots too. Slighty better dps, and better aggro generation for my group doing this way. But I think what type start up you can use really depends on group comps too.