Simple Fix to PLD

[Rexus]

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.

That video just goes to show how PLD has nothing special over WAR. All you did is use your hate/defensive abilities whenever you could, and did some DPS. I think you used cure once, maybe twice that entire fight.

The only reasons Enfarious probably couldn't tank on PLD were either:

A) Their BLMs pulled hate from doing more damage than yours did, or

B) They/their WHM's were slow on cure and PLDs lower HP pool failed them, or

C) Their BLMs failed and adds got up to the PLD, used some AoE, and wiped them

If those cases were true, WAR was better because they can generate more Enmity (through DPS and Abilities), have Higher HP, and could -technically- help with adds using Cyclone.

[Enfarious]

That video just goes to show how PLD has nothing special over WAR. All you did is use your hate/defensive abilities whenever you could, and did some DPS. I think you used cure once, maybe twice that entire fight.

The only reasons Enfarious probably couldn't tank on PLD were either:

A) Their BLMs pulled hate from doing more damage than yours did, or

B) They/their WHM's were slow on cure and PLDs lower HP pool failed them, or

C) Their BLMs failed and adds got up to the PLD, used some AoE, and wiped them

If those cases were true, WAR was better because they can generate more Enmity (through DPS and Abilities), have Higher HP, and could -technically- help with adds using Cyclone.

I mentioned that the only reason I failed on PLD was because I expected it to be a joke, we did not go in expecting to have to work since I've tanked every other AF Body fight on PLD w/o issue, and figured it can't be harder than Ifrit which isn't hard since you expect it to take a bit of effort.

End result: I got hit way to hard way too early, said "Oh shit" my WHM said "Huh" while he was midcast on something not Cure Succor got interrupted I died, not once did I lose hate though lol.

It was simply me being over confident and rushing into the fight cause I was bored.

I only changed to WAR to see if the same poor tanking method would work on WAR where it failed on PLD, it did, and my WHM napped.
WAR and PLD interchange gear, so it's not a gearing issue.
I didn't lose hate at all, so it wasn't an enmity issue.
It was simply that on WAR the xtra HP and somehow greater dmg mitigation made a tactic that should not work in a real fight work just fine.
Oh and I can heal myself better on WAR though Second Wind, Blood Bath, and WS crits than a PLD can Succor, but that's not really an issue most of the time since typically I only heal my other melees and let WHMs do their thing to me.