Quote Originally Posted by Tint View Post
you can all say whatever you want:

the hall of the novice IS teaching new DDs to pick up and - tank the adds.

and it somehow even makes sense, in 4 man content with a single tank. i can see an idea of tank tanks boss, DDs tank Adds, healer heals all of them. of course it's more effective that tank tanks boss AND adds and DDs and healer both are dpsing. but it's just another point in the gameplay discrepancy between the devs wich want tanks in tank stance and healers healing vs the community which wants dps dps dps.

and btw it was actually NOT intended that healers use their dps abilitys in group content... and BLM DOES have a defensive cooldown...
A lesson teaching ypu the importance of killing adds quickly (e.g. kill the adds before they kill a party member) is not "dps are meant to tank adds." Don't be a fool.

BLM's mana ward protects against magic damage only. Cocna's hits are physical.