Returning to game, Theory crafting

[Molly_Millions]

First, this isn't XI, damage, cures and enmity do not work the same way.

Molly: I knew several plds that played that way in FFXI. they performed well. they were highly skilled and knew what they were doing. however in certain situations, especially against gods, they lost hate, a lot. they didn't have the damage mitigation to reliably maintain a high threshold. self healing is part of your damage mitigation.

In theory this all seems logical, but in practice it isn't true. At least not in my case. Once I have hate I rarely, if ever, lose it. When it happens it's usually a BLM doing it on purpose or not watching their hate. On PLD, I'm slower than some to initially grab hate, but once I do, it's stuck like chuck. Maybe it's because I have enmity rather than MND, STR, or VIT on my sword. BTW, I think my damage mitigation is fine, as far as I can tell. It's better than on my war, and there are situations where my group much prefers me on PLD than WAR (truth be told you can't even tank H1s on a WAR reliably if you wanted to.) If I absolutely need it, I do heal myself but I don't use it as a primary means of enmity generation as you seem to imply that I should.