SE must be drunk.

[Seku]

Yeah right, a normal attack...where you add twice your DEX, your AGI, and calculate the pDIF with twice the attack power.

Nope. Just Dex and Atk. Yes attack power, thats your Attack stat. Which is increased, in the case of Viper Bite as you keep bringing up, by DEX and Attack, not agi which is yet again related to TA, which is done outside of Weapon skill calculations. Yet again. Your THF was messing up their damage, please stop trying to talk about things you don't know anything about. You should really go back and re-read those links I got for you.

But funnily, you use that to prove that everyone focused on DPS in XI, yet against the same boss, if the PLD would have tanked, it wouldn't have needed 3 healers to keep him alive, less /THF to keep enmity, while the BLM and WAR could have done much more DPS. And you show that controlling enmity required coordination and surviving required real skill...wich is exactly what XIV tanking lacks

Nope. I use that for when people actually did tank instead of Zerging things down. Samples of Zerg feast were above where bosses that matter were down in about 2-3 minutes and posed more of a threat than Sky Gods.

If I wanted to show enmity stability, I'd go find a video of a ninja spamming Ninjitsu, or a good RDM, which I've actually already shown. The reason hate is so finicky here is because they keep getting hit in the face. Hp lost = Enmity lost in 11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rqUzWBdCgc

There we go.....again. Notice how the RDM gets hit with the consistent magic attacks and doesn't lose hate until their charmed. No Hate control needed. Only a few bosses needed hate control and that was due to Hate reset mechanics. SATA is a old tatic when nothing was known about the game and how to establish and keep hate was still unknown, due to 11 not explaining anything to the player.

And here is how good Linkshells handled hate control on the once a week HNM's and really just about any boss that mattered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4ZUzVifbM

In contrast here's a Kirin one for you too. :3 Just so you can see how weak the sky gods are in comparison.
https://youtu.be/BuHk-2RsqUQ?t=2m54s

Dynamis Final boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiUEKJ6cg0

Provance watcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPBtevkEW8

Diabolos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlxnQ0HVl3E

Odin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOoS2kaeUkU

Bahamut V2 - With a paladin not doing anything but looking pretty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIN6JTqnKU

Yeah..........hate control.........tottally not DPS focused.

Wow, a BRD blink-tanking a stunned boss that uses 10 second casting spells with convenient cuts to not show how it also need transferred enmity to keep the boss on him...what an impressive feat !

Yep, PLD does the same thing and the same method, with the same TA transfers. The only difference is that they spam Flash to get hate, purposly decrease their HP and raise it again (Much like how war loses HP when they go into defiance), so they could cure themselves back up for the hate.

Also, SATA actually makes sense here due to the fact that jobs outside of THF doesn't gain the DEX or AGI bonuses respectively, so SA is just a promised crit / hit and TA is just enemity transfer. ;o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0bZ13xHj4 - Please note on how on every boss all tanks are wearing a Earth staff (-20% physial damage taken) and are shadow tanking (the same method the bard was using). Point is, doesn't matter if it's a bard. a black mage. A white mage. A monk. If you know how to shadow tank and have good damage reduction gear (psst thats every job in 11), you can tank. These are just random videos being pulled up, but LS / players that were actually good had their DPS tank and control hate through damage due to similar damage being thrown out -- assuming they didn't care about TP Feeding the Mob.

The only advantage to having a PLD tank is that shield blocks on attacks made it so they could keep casting while taking hits, thus why Ageis PLD's were so wanted. Which is the fact that Ageis had the highest block %, at the time, as well as a free -25% Magic damage taken. Made it easier for them to gear to 50% cap and resists. ;o

Hope you learn to read and take things in better. It would help you a lot. Peace.

[Reynhart]

Nope. Just Dex and Atk. Yes attack power, thats your Attack stat. Which is increased, in the case of Viper Bite as you keep bringing up, by DEX and Attack, not agi which is yet again related to TA, which is done outside of Weapon skill calculations.

Well...no.
Weapon Skill damage
Damage = WD * pDIF
For Sneak Attack and Trick Attack with Thief main, the calculation is WD = ( D + fSTR + WSC) * fTP + DEX + AGI
pDIF: function of (your Physical ATK/target’s Physical DEF) <- This is where your attack is doubled and the forced crit is applied

If you think that DEX had any effect on your melee attack power, it means you don't even know how to properly calculate basic physical damage...and don't know the difference between attack and damage.

Seriously, at this point, stop trying...