Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
Fun facts time. Most AoEs in dungeon trash pulls are fairly close range. The classes which need to fight at close range have barely any abilities with cast times and can dodge AoEs while continuing to attack (provided the player is skilled enough to multitask). Meanwhile the classes which would be worst affected by having to dodge AoEs (casters) can fight further away so the AoEs mostly don't hit them. A BLM taking an occasional targeted AoE during a trash pull is fine. A NIN eating all the trash AoEs in Heroes' Gauntlet is not.

It’s harder on the healer for casters to take aoe than it is melee DPS, due to less armor and less effective mitigation/self heals in most cases.


On any given wall to wall pull, for example NIN should be able to use Shade Shift, Bloodbath, Second Wind, and a HP pot, and effectively ignore most aoe if they have a certain level of gear in relation to the content being run, and never be a burden to the healer.