10 steps to being a bad PLD

[Nova_Dresden]

I'll add a 14th: eating avoidable casts. In AK, the first boss regularly casts Void Thunder that can be dodged by just running behind the boss during the ability's 3 second cast, and I've seen *so* many PLD tanks just eat it because "the healer will take care of it" (it's the only major source of tank damage in the entire fight; if you avoid that and interrupt Mind Melt, like the tank *should* be since it's on a 30 sec CD just like Brutal Swing, the healer can DPS pretty much the *entire* fight).

For PLD just don't use Spirits Within during the rotation. First Thunder you can hit spirits off the GCD, silence and interrupt, then keep going with your rotation. Next Thunder use Shield Bash, but if your GCD locked then run behind and LoS the spell. You can NEVER trust positioning or casting bars on this game with the horrible latency issues some players have. Some moves I'm so far away from the red-marked area on the ground that I may as well be in Narnia, but the game still thinks I'm standing in front of the boss like an idiot because of latency. I'll take my chances with instant stuns/silences instead of hoping the server knows I'm actually standing behind him.

I got PLD to 50 Monday and started doing AK cause I had almost all Hopelite gear and I marked mobs 1-3 and the DPS still would do there own thing its BS so I stopped wasting time and added marking1 to Shield Lob.

Also people who have Relic+1 should know better.

All DPS should know to gauge their tank's gear and damage accordingly. New tanks in AF with no relic will almost never be able to keep hate against you spamming AoEs, spreading DoTs everywhere, or single-target killing the wrong marked target.