Why leave your shield at home!?

[Zkieve]

saying a mrd or a pug can tank better than a glad is only saying how little you know about the game .
Also , idk who said glad cant do decent damage , glad have an excellent dot dmg , if you arent tanking.
Lets compare them to ffxi classes by example,

MRD is a WAR with MNK HP,
Pugi have the tanking abilities of a THF, not even a nin.
Glad have the defensive abilities of a PLD and can do DMG as a NIN.

Here are the HP values from a R50 MRD in my Linkshell with 174 vit Base: 2383 (2595) Second number is obviously with gear. My base HP with 174 Vit at R49 is 2119. At R50 I'll probably get close to 2200 HP base. Even in full Plate, my HP will likely still be only close to the Base HP of a R50 MRD with capped Vit.
While i agree mrd have more HP , at 50 fully buffed i have on glad 2510 HP, do we really need more ? not really.If you put 174 VIT on MRD your offensive abilities will be under mediocre.


The only area a GLA is better than a MRD is in Defense. As far as I know Shield stats only come into effect if you are guarding, as when you equip a Shield your stats don't change. This means if you keep your shield up constantly, you will take less damage than a MRD.

Where MRD beats out the GLA is the fact that they can basically DD and Tank at the same time. MRD has a lot of debuffs, and Maim can let a MRD do some extra damage while tanking from the front. I've seen a setup for a MRD that had them casting Debuffs on the enemy via THM spells, as well as WS debuffs, and self-buffs. That MRD was easily the most damaging person in the party (except for maybe the Archers) and he was also Tanking. GLA are limited to Tanking only. We could try to hybrid tank it, but it likely wouldn't go well since our damage is pathetic.
Glad with Mrd abilities ----> Mrd with glad abilities ,,,X a million.Level mrd and you will see how big the difference is .