Request for Utsusemi

[Xoo]

90% of content was placed into easy-mode with an evasion tank and medium/hard mode with a blood tank, 10% vice versa. Come on man, use your brain for once.

You mean 90% of mobs didn't use AoE abilities/magic that either wiped or negated shadows? Is it the job or the mob? I don't have to use my brain on these forums.

Are you serious?

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui...nsus/10/2.html

Ninja 5.43%, Paladin 3.83%.

Don't come up with bulls**t 50-50 statistics and false dichotomies.

I see that BLM is at the top of this list. Guess I missed the part where Dark Seal was THE SHIT for tanking, etc.

Irrelevant, what decided the importance of a tank in FFXI was how much damage they took over time. NIN beat the crap out of PLD for practically everything except some really serious HNMs.

Again, the job or the mob?

[Wolfie]

You mean 90% of mobs didn't use AoE abilities/magic that either wiped or negated shadows? Is it the job or the mob? I don't have to use my brain on these forums.

Yeah, mobs used skills that wiped shadows. It didn't matter, because the NIN could get his secondary Utsusemi skill back up before the mob resumed standard auto-attacks, and nothing serious happened.

I see that BLM is at the top of this list. Guess I missed the part where Dark Seal was THE SHIT for tanking, etc.

Please don't tell me you're being serious with this line, because if you are, I'm going to go on a f**king rampage. You can't possibly believe that this is a logical, reasonable response to anything.

Again, the job or the mob?

This is more relevant in a sense, because now you're getting closer to the root of the issue. The majority of fights in FFXI favored NIN tanks, both because of monster attack mechanics and NIN defense mechanics. Just because a few fights favored PLD tanks does not mean that the two were on equal grounds.