Quote Originally Posted by Treach View Post
Thing is you have to take two whms for both AV and CC just due to the damage taken by everybody in the fight, a single whm can't heal the tank and the blms in ant fight, a single whm is extremely dangerous for chimera if the tank gets hit by a ws while ants are beating on people, too many adds for a single whm to heal on the av end boss, cyclops might be one maybe if you are lucky, moogle fight takes two also if just because rng can kill you.

Only fight that it is somewhat safe for just one whm is ifrit, that I have done before as both tank and cnj.

Just because you have a PLD doesn't mean you can drop a WHM for a dps, thats just crazy.

Also I'm not playing favorites with jobs, I go play whatever works best. If suddenly another class becomes the most efficient tank I'll swap to it, same goes for DPS classes.
Well it was like I was saying earlier...if you can do a WAR with 2 WHMS, you can probably do a PLD with one..if they are really good. They have to be really good, and by good I mean self-sufficient enough for a WHM to take care of an emergency. This would require a different playstyle, different positioning, and different tactics altogether. I havent tried it with CC or AV yet myself, but I imagine its worth a try. Point is if the PLD functions like a WHM, as in *mostly* self-sufficient, I dont see any reason why the one WHM cannot focus on other pt members as well.

Course if the minimum is 2 WHMs no matter what (which i find hard to believe but time will tell), then sure take the WAR. But if you're taking 3 WHMs and a WAR tank, might as well take 2 WHMs and a PLD tank instead. Problem is the community just hasn't gotten used to the job system and how to use jobs effectively. A PLD is *supposed* to be mostly self sufficient in exchange for pitiful dmg. What we are seeing is that many PLDs are *not* mostly self sufficient due to not carrying ethers, long skill CDs, etc. With the update, this should be fixed.

Besides, a WHM isnt the only class that can heal. In times of danger anyone with a cure should be curing themselves, and by danger I mean a big aoe that dropped everyone to red/dead. But WHMs have impressive healing capabilities..so combined with a PLD I think single WHM runs could be feasible...once ppl figure it out. They just havent figured it out yet.