Paladin Updates

[Aceofspades]

My own LS members began to doubt my ability to sustain enough hate to compair to that of WAR. This posed a challange, soo i did what I normally do when I come across a chalenge. I rose to the ocasion (keep in mind, i had serious doubts myself i could do this). Until today , the biggest edge i gave WAR was hate control, because untill today I just had a hard time maintaining sufficent hate to keep it with my BLMs (scoring over 12-15k damage a fight) going all out, none stop nuking. PLD (imo) has superior healing abilities, and damage defelction. Soo truly the only real challange in my eyes was the hate control (i dont see the great need of a tank to deal damage, sure it would be nice, but frankly taking less damage and self curing is more benificial to the party.)
After some tweeking of my action bars (i never used to use macros) I found , not only did I maintain hate but my two hardest hitting THM/BLMs (15k+ damage a run) couldnt get out of yellow hate. I did notice tho because i was focusing soo much on hate controll and damage deflection I neglected my healing ablities simply cuz it was to dificult to get to fast enough. This is where i created my very first ever "battle macros" very simple macros , simply one for Holy Sucor and one for cure but it was effective no the less.
After I made these adjustments our group was able to do 4 speed runs outa 6 atemps. for some this is not impresive , but for a LS that dosent spend its every waking moment on the game, we were happy with our performance. Confidant now that no matter how much damage is delt I can keep hate , we are currently seeking better ways to deal DPS to Ifrit to challange our fastest time (8:45 ). We did take parses for those intrested, will post them as soon as my peeps send em to me.
As far as deflecting magic damage. IMO the only real tank option that has magic damage deflection built into it is PLD, or GLD. I think our current tanks are underestimating the usefullnes of stone skin. Realy fast cool downs, deflects a great deal of damage (both magical and physical) and takes realativly little mp. I use it soo much i keep it on my main bar right next to Devine Veil.
I did equip the gear i normally use during this fight on my war and just a fyi, after i did so, WAR's HP went down dramaticly, the 1k buff comes largely from AF gear wich I find deflects very little if any damage at all. In Fact PLD with Ifrit gear 36XX HP , War is roughly 4100 , not that great of a HP buff for lack of damage deflection.
As far as a fight in wich PLD is the undisputed best tank between it and WAR, Batrall. If i need to elaberate I will do so, but if your responding to this , I would hope you dont need an explination as to why PLD is clearly the winner in the Batrall fight.