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    Kuo's Avatar
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    Lia Via
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    Midgardsormr
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    Red Mage Lv 90

    tank with least buttons for 4 mans

    I am trying to find out what would be the tank with the least buttons for 4 mans. I don't plan on raiding as tank.
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    Fayhd Apollo
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    Sargatanas
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    Marauder Lv 70
    For dungeons, Pld is the easiest.
    Flash, Fight or Flight, defensive CD, and spam Total Eclipse until your out of tp...
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    Felorr Bhakti
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    Gilgamesh
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    Marauder Lv 70
    Warrior prolly has the least buttons. Paladin has the most buttons but you probably wouldn't need to use most of them in 4mans anyway.
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    Isrea Dorne
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    Faerie
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    Archer Lv 50
    Your group would hate you, but you could probably hold aggro and get through dungeons as a Paladin without ever using any ability other than Flash.
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    Dacien Sanderon
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    Famfrit
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    Warrior Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Kuo View Post
    I am trying to find out what would be the tank with the least buttons for 4 mans. I don't plan on raiding as tank.
    I think a more interesting question would be which tank loses the least by using less buttons. Like can you have 95% performance using only 75% or less of the skills?
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    Mirchea Luslec
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    Odin
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    Conjurer Lv 70
    drk, unleah and chill, on boss too
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    Famine Cruor
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    Mateus
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    Marauder Lv 70
    Warrior. A warrior can hold aggro on any four man dungeon in the game with overpower spam. One button, spaced out to let TP regen.

    But seriously, that would be boring, and your party would hate you SO much.
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    Aleph Alpha
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    Tonberry
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    Warrior Lv 80
    I'm inclined to say for a dungeon run drk has less buttons to juggle than pld or war, but I haven't lvld mine to 70. For aoe situation drk spams abyssal drain with dark arts, ogcds and defensive cds weaved in, pld does flash 1-2x and spam total eclipse with ogcds and defensive cds weaved in, war spams overpower while maintaining eye buff and occasional decimate spam in berserk/inner release, while still having to weave in defensive cds. On bosses pld needs to manage 3 combos (halone, royal, goring), while weaving in requiescat and holy spirit spam. War is similar with the 3 combos (eye, path, block) and on top of that war needs to manage gauge and align berserk/infuriate/inner release. Drk only has 2 combos, and dark arts usage is pretty easy (carve and spit > everything else other than dark passenger).
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    Letho Orwyth
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    Leviathan
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    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by aleph_null View Post
    Snip.
    Dark Dungeon running is actually what I'd call "smoother" but I wouldn't say it has less buttons. In dungeon pulls you'll likely use unleash, abyssal drain, carve and spit, quietus, the blackest night, defensive cds (although this is for all tanks), blood price, delirium (every 120 seconds unless before boss), and the syphon combo when low on mana or near the end of the group with dark arts if you're capping for mana. A lot more buttons there than one might think.

    All tanks are pretty similar for bosses though.
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    Warden Azem
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    Mateus
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    Dark Knight Lv 97
    The actual answer here is DRK by far. Come on guys what are you even trying by saying PLD and War instead? All a DRK has to do is literally just spam Unleash/Abyssal drain with some blood price to get mana back. That's it. At most at really high levels spam abyssal drain with the ocasional quietus worked in there.
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