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    KindraWeftylner's Avatar
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    Kindra Weftylner
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    Chocobo Tanking in Shadowbringers

    With Shadowbringers, the loss of Enmity decreasing skills such as Diversion for DPS, makes it so it's almost impossible for Tank Chocobos to hold higher Enmity then the player using any DPS class, even should said chocobo have all 10 Tank skills, and set to Defender Stance, as such and in light of the new changes, I think one of the Chocobo Tank skills should be a new Tank stance like Dark Knight's Grit or Paladin's Iron Will, or at least having it set to Defender Stance would increase it's threat overall since it can only use tank skills in that stance anyway.
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    Player Doozer's Avatar
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    Gunnar Mel'nik
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    Bard Lv 90
    I don't think I've ever been in danger when doing open world content with my chocobo, no matter what job I am. I honestly feel like tank chocobos are a waste anyway. I have mine as a healer instead.
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    Leon Reddas
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    Unless you are attracting large amounts of enemies where it's very difficult to keep aggro then usually your Chocobo is just an extension of your DPS. Low levels it might keep aggro but higher ones you'd just be pulling threat too often, because of job burst potential, Healer or Free stance tends to be better. Just becareful in open world content as in the end the chocobo is not a replacement for an actual tank with a person pressing buttons/keys on the other side.
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    Karuru Karu
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    Yes, the tank Chocobo needs a buff, a big one. It needs a waaaaaay better enmity generation, wich should not be a problem since the enmity generation of actual tanks is over the top now anyway. The Chocobo should stay somewhere between actual tanks and DDs / healers.

    Another problem is that the Chocobo doesn't scale with your gear, only with your level, wich means the whole enmity problem gets only worse in an expansion cycle.
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    Last edited by Tint; 07-15-2019 at 06:52 PM.

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    Rex Moore
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    I feel this is a problem as well. And my Chocobo can only hold enmity from one enemy right? It would be cool if it could tank a whole group.
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    Asuka Suzuhana
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    Sage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by KindraWeftylner View Post
    With Shadowbringers, the loss of Enmity decreasing skills such as Diversion for DPS, makes it so it's almost impossible for Tank Chocobos to hold higher Enmity then the player using any DPS class, even should said chocobo have all 10 Tank skills, and set to Defender Stance, as such and in light of the new changes, I think one of the Chocobo Tank skills should be a new Tank stance like Dark Knight's Grit or Paladin's Iron Will, or at least having it set to Defender Stance would increase it's threat overall since it can only use tank skills in that stance anyway.

    Even in healer, chocoTank can not hold aggro even while waiting 10-30 sec before dps.

    It was already like that before.

    The healers have a chocoDps and the others chocoHeal for solo FATE.
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    Asuka Suzuhana
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    Quote Originally Posted by Challe83 View Post
    I feel this is a problem as well. And my Chocobo can only hold enmity from one enemy right? It would be cool if it could tank a whole group.
    He can't hold aggro even you are healer after 10 sec of waiting...
    It's just useless.

    Ps: I have chocobo LvL20 (lvl 10 Tank/Heal/dps)
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