Quote Originally Posted by KaitlanKela View Post
Thank you both so much. So, here's what I got:

GLD -> 22 for Provoke. Use Cure, Protect & SS xclass to help soloing
MRD -> 26 for all xclass abilities. Make sure to use flash and provoke from GLD
GLD -> 34 for PLD and Awareness, cause it's needed later
MRD -> 30 for WAR
Unlock DRK at 30
At that point, just experiment and see which one I like best, since I'll have the full xclass toolkit.

Thanks again, this was very helpful!
Pretty much, but let me also elaborate on a few of those statements as well.
For MRD, DEFINITELY bring Convalescence too! It's a godsend of an ability for tanks and healers.
If you decide to go WAR, then yes, you'll probably want to finish up with GLD to lvl 34. Awareness is really only useful to a WAR at a high level (56 with raw intuition). It's not necessarily a bad move, but it's not so great that people will complain you don't have it otherwise.

If you decide to continue with GLD/PLD as your main tank, then you will want to take out Cure real quick. It's heals become practically useless once you hit lvl 20 I'd say (probably sooner really). As a GLD though, you can still cross class all the others, so I'd suggest using second wind if you have it available. If you wish to just stick with what PLD can cross, you'll want foresight, bloodbath and mercy stroke most likely. Raise isn't very useful unless you really like picking up dead people randomly throughout your travels. You can't use it in battle though. For me, cure is more like a joke cross that I sometimes keep on. I'll look at my FC healer and start spamming out cures and be like, "don't worry, I got this. You DPS". As a heads up. I'm a lvl 60 PLD and my cures do an amazing 250 per cure (I know, impressive).