Thread: [Guide] Paladin Tanking Compendium 2.0.1

Unsure if these are mistakes, but I noticed that the following items in the gear have accuracy listed as a stat yet none of them give accuracy in the pages they link to. Also you list Ultima Choker of Fending as iLvl 70 instead of 80.

90AM - Vortex Ring of Fending - Garuda Extreme
70MA - Ultima Choker of Fending - Ultima Weapon Hard
80MA - Ultima Band of Fending - Ultima Weapon Hard

Can anybody give me a good buff rotation for heavy damage single mob (BOSS) encounters.

When he has >= 2 stacks I've just been using Rampart ---> Convalescence --> Foresight .[note i wait until the buffs go out before using the next one] and save Sentinel/Bulwark for 3+ stacks/desperate situations.

I'm not sure if i am using my cooldowns effectively, i know the above strategy works pretty well for Ultima but I am new to tanking in Coil (as DRG is my main)

can anybody offer any advice?

Especially with how cheap most everything is. Getting Gryphonskin is incredibly efficient. There's no guarantee how quickly you'll get Allagan accessories so why not? I just Made and melded my ring with max stats in under 300k When the same ring that my tank buddy made himself cost him like 3milion.

Materia is DIRT CHEAP so is the ring itself.

300k is about the total amount of Gil I have at the moment, and I never buy things aside from the occasional mats to help level an alt crafter, so I think "cheap" may be a bit of a subjective term here, especially depending on server.

PLD is my 3rd or 4th job; I just use my penta-melded Gryphonskin Choker / Ring from BRD. I think they're a great intermediate piece until something better comes your way. Ring is +10 VIT, +12 CRIT, +4 DTR. Choker is funny because I accidentally melded the wrong materia for #5, but it actually works alright for PLD: VIT +10, CRIT +9, PARRY +4. The ring cost much more to make; the choker was really cheap with the quest giving materia slashing the Savage Aim prices. Savage Aim IV 50k, VIT III and II ~4k, Parry don't remember, but really low. Yeah it's not BiS, but you're not BiSing a 3rd or 4th job for a while with the lockout restrictions.

Wall of crags is now slightly better than relic sheild (not zenith) Has determination (and lol earth resist) buff in addition to same stats

Quick question then: If neither the Break Blade nor the Onion Shield have any Parry, should I even consider them over the Curtana/Holy Shield? Or would one or the other be an upgrade over the Relic weapon/Shield?

Also, the Titan EX earrings are not listed here, just as an FYI.

Originally Posted by WowSuchName

Current BIS:
Parry 621 ACC 480 Crit 356 DET 230 SPD 352
-Average Block mitigation = 6.79% (24.74% Block Rate with 27.45% MIT)
-Average Parry mitigation = 3.80% (25.12% Parry Rate with 15.14% MIT)
-Total Mitigation = 10.59%

Alternate BIS:
Parry 616 ACC 478 Crit 378 DET 219 SPD 352
-Average Block mitigation = 6.83% (34.72% Block Rate with 19.66% MIT)
-Average Parry mitigation = 3.79% (25.05% Parry Rate with 15.14% MIT)
-Total Mitigation = 10.62%

Basically, earn MIT0.03% + 22CRIT in exchange of 2ACC/11DET

So, for one, at full i90 your parry stops 24% per parry, not 15%. So, if you had a chance to parry all incoming attacks, it would actually be a little over 6% average mitigation.

Secondly, parry check is preformed AFTER block check, so increasing your block rate lowers the number of attacks you can parry. This means the onion shield actually lowers your total parry mitigation, which is pretty bad since your parry mitigates more than your block does with the onion shield equipped. (Again, 24% vs 20%.)

So, with Zenith/Allagan: You block 24.74%, leaving a little over 75% of attacks you could parry. Multiply by chance to parry, then amount parried, and poof: 4.36% damage parried. + 6.79% from shield, 11.15% total mitigation.

Onion: You block 34.72% of attacks, leaving 65.28% of attacks you could parry, all said: 3.94% damage parried. 10.75% total mitigation.

You lose 0.4% by switching to onion shield.