Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
It could also simply mean the fight was a bit beyond your ability as a PLD. (I don't mean for that to sound rude or disrespectful. It's been stated that it's harder to play PLD than WAR, and I feel this is an example of that. Because you could do it on WAR but not PLD doesn't necessarily mean the job is imbalanced. You could simply just play WAR better.)

PLD tanking BLM Final Fight

I apologize in advance for the poor quality of the video. FFXIV doesn't run very smoothly when I set fraps to full.
If I can tank Ifrit on PLD there's no reason that I can't tank AF fights, and this is the only one I failed on.
I'll admit that I expected it to be a joke like most of them were, and didn't go in thinking I'd get hit for what I did initially. I also didn't get raised and didn't bother to try a second time as my goal wasn't to say "I did it on PLD" it was just to get it done.
The point wasn't about whether or not I can tank on PLD, I know that I can and do.

It was that on PLD it was challenging, far more than I anticipated, on WAR I just stood there with no worries. Was proof of concept behind obnoxious OPdness of WAR nothing more.