Why am I so squishy as a PLD?

[Kosmos992k]

Brayflox is a difficulty spike and very sensitive to your gear level. I looked at your character on Lodestone. You have several things that you'd be well advised to fix. First of all your gear is too light, you need better armor, ideally your gear should match or exceed the level of the dungeon from Brayflox on. However your biggest issuse is going to be holding aggro with a level 28 weapon. I'd suggest obtaining Grand Company gear at least, or talking to some friendly crafters about getting some HQ gear. Some of your accessories are quite low level as well, and it would ghelp to have them upgraded also. Your Free Company is a larger one, so talk to the crafters within it about getting some gear to help you. Honestly Brayflox is the first in sequence of difficulty spikes and your gear is the major way you can deal with those spikes - well, that and making sure you are on top of your skills of course.

[Slartibart]

Yeah, but the thing is I am trying to complete a dungeon right now but everyone keeps leaving because I'm too squishy :P (7 times in a row)

You've already got a lot of good advices. Have this last one: find a friendly Free Company and go into dungeons with your guildmates. They won't let you down, hopefully, and you'll learn better and faster

[PetiteMalFleur]

It's your jewelry. You have zero tank accessories and they are all low level anyway. I think the weapon is OK. Will it be easier with something better? Yes, but I'd buy all new jewelry and see how much of an improvement you get. It doesn't have to be hq. As a healer I suggest going for what gives you the most parry and vitality. The parry will help mitigate a lot of damage.

There will be gear checks in every dungeon from this point forward. Always make sure your gear is level appropriate.

[Genjuro]

If you're wanting to push it, you can snag the Steel Scale Mail stuff, but it'll come at a price and also you've gotta consider that at 35 you'll be wearing Heavy Mail (Bucket Head) stuff. Up to you if you want to upgrade, but it'll take a chunk out of your gil. I'd say pack on some vit things with your accessories but other than that it's pretty much just the luck of the draw. Sometimes even when you do all you can, it isn't enough. You'll come to know this when you hit Temple of Qarn and beyond, especially with the DF.

[Giantbane]

nvm, sorry, forgot about level capping <Derp>

[Niadissa]

Another thing to try, find a BLM friend, who can sleep I forget which level but they get a trait that AOE sleeps everything, (that can be slep) this will help a lot on the trash. A healer can sleep, but its one at a time, and usually with a tank that is taking a lot of damage we don't have time to sleep any mobs beyond the first one.

P.S. BLM will love you if you queue up with them, eliminates most of the DPS wait time in the duty finder lol

[saber_alter]

if you manage to get through it i recommend running it a few times.


calvary set is great. its pretty viable until you get to level 40 (for me it was at least).

[Swick]

Using flash frequently on trash mobs and some bosses can help greatly too. Don't underestimate blind.

[Hundred]

Brayflox isn't really a gear check. I ran brayflox first with my Paladin before I started my Warrior and as my first tank char in MMO's I didn't have tip top gear for Brayflox. The dungeon just has some damage spikes, I ran brayflox probably 20x as a paladin and it felt spiky the first times I ran it. Afterwards it didn't but I don't chalk this up to gear, but getting used to the damage.

You'll find Brayflox is almost on auto-pilot on your third run, you don't even need to get gear from it atm. If I recall The grand companies will have lvl 31(?) gear you can put on, this'll be enough. I had some level 19 jewlery if I recall at the time that I ran with it, and the Plunderer belt from Satasha. Even after replacing low level pieces with higher gear it can still feel spikey.

Don't stress over gear here, what you've got to do to make things easier to cope with for yourself is pop cooldowns.
If your healer is really potent then you'll pop less, if he isn't just drop a Rampart or Foresight. Make sure to utilize Flash because it blinds, I found even an ocassional Flash during the final boss would reduce strains on the healer due to less need to heal.
The hardest stuff is the first two bosses, after that the damage will be more manageable partially due to you being used to it and partially due to a lot of it turning into red aoes from single targets that you can avoid.

One thing is if your party members are sleeping targets if they're able to. If you mark 1-2-3 the sleeper can put 3 and even 2 to sleep. That drops the damage you are taking down to a third right off the bat.

[Avalon_Albrook]

I wouldn't actually listen to the "don't stress about gear" part, because this is when you should start paying attention to your gear. Paying attention to it now and not letting yourself go to the advanced dungeons with sub-par gear will let you be very aware of what a difference it makes once you get to fights like the HM primals.