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    Duelle Urelle
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
    No the downfall of PLDs was all the melee hitting the enmity cap like 5 sec into a fight and having the mob bounce around between whoever had hit it last.
    Blink tanking screwed encounter design hard. You HAD to design mobs to hit super hard because otherwise NINs would trivialize the fight. Unfortunately, defense scaling in XI meant that if you used a PLD you were SOL because the hits would be too hard for you to heal and keep enmity through.

    That's not going into how contrary to concept blink tanking was. I'd rather not have that mess here and instead have a wider roster of tanks in the form on BST, SAM and one other job aside from PLD and WAR.
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    * The sad thing is that FFXIV turned RDM into a turret, and people think that's what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to combine sword and magic into something more, not spend the bulk of gameplay spamming spells and jump into melee for only 3 GCDs before scurrying back to the back line like good little casters.
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    Red Mage - COMPLETE (https://tinyurl.com/y6tsbnjh), Chemist - Second Pass (https://tinyurl.com/ssuog88), Thief - First Pass (https://tinyurl.com/vdjpkoa), Rune Fencer - First Pass (https://tinyurl.com/y3fomdp2)

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    Zumi Kasumi
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
    Blink tanking screwed encounter design hard. You HAD to design mobs to hit super hard because otherwise NINs would trivialize the fight. Unfortunately, defense scaling in XI meant that if you used a PLD you were SOL because the hits would be too hard for you to heal and keep enmity through.

    That's not going into how contrary to concept blink tanking was. I'd rather not have that mess here and instead have a wider roster of tanks in the form on BST, SAM and one other job aside from PLD and WAR.
    Have you played Voidwatch the current content? There is no tanking its all use fanatics drinks. Mob bounces between whoever hit it last. Unless a Mob as adds then you have a PLD hold them off to the side and thats all a PLD ever does is hold adds.
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