Limit breaks as tank?

[LilLemay]

The best time to use a tank LB is clearly whenever the rest of the party wipes and you wanna live just that little bit longer for them bada** points

On a serious note, I usually use tank LB for things like what everyone said above, when the fight demands it, or whenever I make the judgement call that not enough of us are alive to survive a stacking explosion mechanic, so I pop that

[Jpec07]

There was one time when I was farming World of Darkness that I saved the party from the last boss' nuke after she'd eaten too many clouds with an LB3.

That felt good.

I do think that the tank LB feels a little bit lackluster, but I also see the design problem: how can you make something that's potentially useful without making situations where it is necessary?

Perhaps if they split it up so that each role had a different limit break gauge, it could work?

[Canadane]

I use it in dungeons (where it's not critical to really use ever) as a boss reaches low HP, simply because the DPS probably should have used it earlier.

[Ragology]

The only time I got to use it consistently was a while back to survive Garuda's big attack during her phase change. People seem fine nowadays though.

[ZhaneX]

I've found myself having to use it an unfortunate number of times to prevent wiping on A10.

[Claire_Pendragon]

LB2 is a Rampart on the entire party and LB3 is 50% reduction which is stronger than Sentinel... and for the whole party.

Ive heard it was 50% as well, but Ive also heard A12S ultimate is 240k dmg.
with a 20k crit aldo on our WAR tank, we take about 100 dmg or less with LB3.
w/o LB3, with 47k hp, and 20k crit aldo on, it still kills the WAR, rather than doing just 20k dmg.
(Me as DRK with 35k hp, and tank stance, i also die)

So im starting to think LB3 has been improved to be waaaay more than -50%, otherwise we could find a way to survive Alex ultimate w/o it.

[Cabalabob]

Ive heard it was 50% as well, but Ive also heard A12S ultimate is 240k dmg.
with a 20k crit aldo on our WAR tank, we take about 100 dmg or less with LB3.
w/o LB3, with 47k hp, and 20k crit aldo on, it still kills the WAR, rather than doing just 20k dmg.
(Me as DRK with 35k hp, and tank stance, i also die)

So im starting to think LB3 has been improved to be waaaay more than -50%, otherwise we could find a way to survive Alex ultimate w/o it.

The numbers are different all over the place cause it doesn't get enough use for anyone to figure it out properly. The originally accepted values for LB 1-2-3 were 10%-20%-50%.
But since then some say 20%-40%-80%. And any random variations in between those.
It's hard to test since it gets so little use, has no personal tooltip and isn't exactly something you can just go out and do to check the numbers.

[Canadane]

I've been under the understanding it's 80% reduction on LB3. Never heard or quoted as 50% before.

[Cabalabob]

I've been under the understanding it's 80% reduction on LB3. Never heard or quoted as 50% before.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Limit_Break
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http://www.ffxivinfo.com/content/limit-breaks.php
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[SlyRoyale]

Tank LB rarely sees use outside of specific or niche scenarios. As others have previously mentioned, using tank LB3 to survive Bahamut Prime's Teraflare in a synched party or Alexander's Divine Judgment is one way to use it. There would also be niche scenarios, such as using it as an extra mitigation cooldown when all of your other defensive buffs are on cooldown, or during a big pull in a dungeon and you got paired up with two melee DPS.

Ideally, you shouldn't have to use tank LB unless it's absolutely necessary, such as surviving an attack that would otherwise oneshot your party, or it's an emergency.