Duty Roulette: Low Level puts Paladins to shame!

[Grayvent]

Just recently been actively doing Duty Roulette for the daily rewards.

I'm a full DL set and relic + 1 Paladin, most of the time being place from Tamtara to Halatali for low level dungeon. Often time i notice i got beat by archers around that level range. (Not sure if they actually got nerfed or became stronger after 2.1)

Having synced to a lowbie glad, i pretty much have only my spam'able "Fast Blade -> Savage Blade" combo to gain hate on bosses and mob. Some how the archers still beat me from it. I can't get back agro on the bosses unless i tell the archer to hold back their atk. That's kinda embarrassing.
(I remember back then when i was tanking in the lv20's, it wasn't this bad)

Any other fellow PLD have the same issues? If so how do you overcome it?

[Shuon]

I think it is common. Archers in that lvl range can let loose a barrage of blood letter, heavy shot, repelling shot not to menion the damage bonus from straight shot from the outset, which is a massive amoubt of burst damage. Just ask them to hold back of it is proving to be a problem ^^;

[Kal-El]

WAR is better at lower level dungeons before it starts to level out.

I tend to leave the low level roulette for my low level classes which just now is BRD and I definitely have to hold back to make sure the tank can get aggro.

[Grayvent]

Yeah that's what i did, tell em to hold back everytime i get an archer in my party.

Working on warrior too. Just hit lv15, couple more levels to go

[Viridiana]

I always had this issue when leveling ARC/BRD. It's always been way too easy at low levels (and not particularly difficult at high ones) to pull aggro from tanks.

[TouchandFeel]

Yeah, you do only have 2 parts of your combo, but there are other ways to gain a hate lead. Make sure to make good use of shield lob, flash and stun. As long as you are marking and your party plays their roles right you should be okay with keeping hate.

[Grayvent]

lol agree.

I'm cool with ARC/BRD pulling mob since we can mow em down in seconds.

But if they pull bosses away, that messes up with the positioning of the bosses and often time wipe the ARC along with the healer LOL.
I uses Shield lob when i get a chance since it hit hard, but not stun (cost too much TP) or flash (only for multi mobs).

[RyuDragnier]

I've always taken THM/BLM and ARC/BRD as the one weakness of the GLA/PAL class...it's not possible to keep the aggro on something with them attacking it after a certain amount of time has passed. For me as I'm leveling my GLA, I find I lose the aggro at around 40% health left on a mob to a ARC/BRD, and around 20% health left on a mob to a THM/BLM.

[WellGramarye]

Just spam flash till yer near out of mp and use the mp combo, your hate gain will beat out any dps the dps can put out.

[Viridiana]

Just spam flash till yer near out of mp and use the mp combo, your hate gain will beat out any dps the dps can put out.

Flash spam has *never* been able to hold against my ST rotation as an ARC/BRD. Ever.