Paladin Shield/Sword Oath Usage

[DamianTenbe]

Thanks for the answers and clearing it up for me.

It'll take me time to adjust from the tanking I'm used to, but eventually I'll get it done. I just find myself thinking "Take as little damage as possible, you're not a dps" too often. As my friends say, "Just let the healer cover your health for you."

Maybe I just need to tell myself to treat shield oath like a cooldown, using it only when needed.

Hi Forben. I would suggest building agroo In shield oath and after u establish it, I would then change to sword oath and pop my offensive cd to deal some dmg. You can pop some defensive cd while in sword oath to help the healer out. For me staying in shield oath is
1. mandatory when your healer struggles to heal you.
2. When you have trouble keeping agroo and the rest of the party steals agroo from you.
3. Tank swaps.


Welcome to FF14. I also was a Tank in wow Paladin. Now I'm a Warrior here and I love it.

[shao32]

Hi Forben. I would suggest building agroo In shield oath and after u establish it, I would then change to sword oath and pop my offensive cd to deal some dmg. You can pop some defensive cd while in sword oath to help the healer out. For me staying in shield oath is
1. mandatory when your healer struggles to heal you.
2. When you have trouble keeping agroo and the rest of the party steals agroo from you.
3. Tank swaps.

on tank swaps? thats a thing of the past now we have shirk.

[Quri]

tank swaps? thats a thing of the past now we have shirk.

No, that's wrong. Shirk is aggro control, tank swap is changing tanks because of a debuff that would deal more damage than a tank could mitigate .

[shao32]

No, that's wrong. Shirk is aggro control, tank swap is changing tanks because of a debuff that would deal more damage than a tank could mitigate .

what i mean i s no need of use of tank stance thanks of provoke/shirk combo