Fighting Desperately...

[Peptaru]

Part of the ease is that they mark everything on a map for where you need to go, that's some serious spoon-feeding. No one even had to figure that stuff out. FFXIV does -try- to make it harder since they stepped up Dlvl when they dropped mob levels in some places, but that just led to all the broken stats vs. Dlvl arguements like "HP > ALL!" "Block and Meva are useless" and so on.

Short of taking enough damage to one shot, any job can tank in XIV. It just takes two curas instead of one to push their HP to full before the next attack lands. That wasn't at all feasable... feasible? (sp) in XI at all unless half your party was whm or rdm to cure bomb. but with hate decay like it was your mages would die very quickly.

Bring back utsusemi in its pre-nerf goodness! when one shadow would absorb AoE magic, and shadows lost didn't drop your hate and yada yada! (that there's a joke!)

[Riv]

Part of the ease is that they mark everything on a map for where you need to go, that's some serious spoon-feeding. No one even had to figure that stuff out. FFXIV does -try- to make it harder since they stepped up Dlvl when they dropped mob levels in some places, but that just led to all the broken stats vs. Dlvl arguements like "HP > ALL!" "Block and Meva are useless" and so on.

Short of taking enough damage to one shot, any job can tank in XIV. It just takes two curas instead of one to push their HP to full before the next attack lands. That wasn't at all feasable... feasible? (sp) in XI at all unless half your party was whm or rdm to cure bomb. but with hate decay like it was your mages would die very quickly.

Bring back utsusemi in its pre-nerf goodness! when one shadow would absorb AoE magic, and shadows lost didn't drop your hate and yada yada! (that there's a joke!)

I disagree with the map marking. What did the majority of ppl do when they had to find where to go for a quest in XI? Looked it up on the Wiki, ZAM, KI or something of that nature. So since it was done anyway, i'd rather it be done in game and save me the trouble. With a world as large as this, do you really want to scour the entire place on foot looking for a random "???" or whatever? I would not consider that fun, nor do i consider looking it up online to be enjoyable either. The only problem i have is what happens when you arrive at most of these destinations....easy fights or some other stupid crap, with the exception of the AF quests which were all very nicely done.

I agree with your tanking statement for the most part. I would not say that "any" class can tank, but pretty much any melee with full hp materia would stand a fairly good chance. It saddens me that sacrificing actual tanking stats in favor of full HP build to just eat whatever damage comes your way while being cure bombed is a viable solution to certain fights.