Quote Originally Posted by Magic-Mal View Post
Responses in bold. Maybe I might do it this way more often..
Sorry, was going ham on leveling an alt so got distracted. Now keep in my that this is all agree to disagree on this stuff.

1.) That is more of a mindset I believe someone said between JP and NA players. NA players are all about 'faster DPS, take things down faster, that is all that matters' while JP from what I heard was the other side of it. For me, getting more DPS as a tank was pointless and made little sense even if the healers could keep me alive cause that wasn't the role I am playing. I am there to survive hits and make it easier on the healers and if both tanks did that and went down, chances are it is a wipe. People in NA may not like it but get used to the fact that tanks are just that, tanks.

As for before the change, I never once went the same route as other tanks and stacked STR gear (I was playing with friends of course) and we did encounters just fine (other friend did it half-ass). The change had little to do with 'complaining or confusing' I believe and just made the smart choice of not forcing tanks to choose between either stat and get expelled from raids from people just because they didn't follow the meta.

2.) I assume you mean that the spells were upgraded as you leveled so you didn't have to deal with multiple of the same spell on ya bar (such as I got miasma 1 on my bar and that is upgraded and replaces the lesser spell automatically) which is the same thing WoW does. I want a source on this complaint because the only one I can think of is button bloat so again, they made a good choice since they promised I believe before SB came out to help deal with button bloat (which only got worse).

As for cleric stance, that I really want a source since you seem pretty clear on saying the players complaining about this and that (which I doubt you speak for the entire player base). The only complaint I did ever hear about cleric stance was when a healer accidentally kept it on while healing. It would be noticed, laughs would be had, cleric stance would be turned off and things would continue.

3.) Vaguely recall using accuracy materia now that I look back on ARR but not sure if I ever hit the cap. I got close for sure but still had no trouble keeping aggro due to the rotations. A few misses wasn't going to destroy the entire run. I was still able to get aggro from the off tank and hold it rather easily unless bad luck happened.

4.) I tried PvP a day or so ago on my alt (just hit 59 but tried it at 57 cause dem glamours) and it felt fine to me?