Quote Originally Posted by Esmoire View Post
The irony is PLD arguably has the worst self-sustain of all the tanks. It is true Clemency is the Duty Finder Freshmaker, able to pull together even worst of parties.

However, it's hard to fathom how many parties are carried by WAR's huge self-healing, or TBN's huge 25% absorption + Abyssal Drain's massive sustain on pulls. I think all the tanks carry parties to some degree, though the difference is PLD is the only one that has to disrupt their DPS to do so, and block doesn't quite make up for that.This is false information. Nascent Flash applies to 3 GCDs. Keep in mind, it only has to be active for the start of the attack to snapshot its effect.



All in all the healing is excellent when doing trash pulls, within IR, or when using Inner Chaos. It's not Clemency, but it's enough that if the healer is the first to die I can get people through any dungeon boss and some of the trials or raids as long as people don't mess up too much.
Oh noes, I was off by a GCD! The horror! It's still nothing on Clemency. It has a cooldown, the requirement of a living body not your own, your ability to deal damage, and cannot be used on more than one person, per use. Clemency can be spammed, and the spam can be sustained by forgoing DPS, and doing Fast > Riot over and over again, resulting in a Clemency every 5 GCDs. Compare 1200 potency heal every 5th against 250/300 potency heal every 3. That is also not factoring in natural MP regen, nor the ability to use Super Ethers for more. PLD has the best self-sustain in the game.