Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[Chasingstars]

DRK = Jumps in, pulls
DNC/WHM = LB, whatever other useful skill to keep everyone stunned in place
AST/DRG = LB, whatever other useful skill for maximum damage of held group
PLD = protect

Wrong. You want dancers, reapers, and warriors. Because breaking their guard is more important than a white mage stun that lasts less than 2 seconds. As guard breaks catch the ones who would be more prepared and do it early.

The main way to decrease the damage taken from an engage like that is having a Scholar who can just use their own LB+Shield+Deployment to create shields to also grant themselves and their allies an 8% damage buff. In addition Expedient+Dot+Deployment causes the engaging team to suffer 8% penalty while the defending team also gets an additional 10% damage mitigation. And that expedient provides a movespeed buff which can allow allies to escape if the engaging team screws up.

Also speaking of paladins, I seen plenty that try to be annoying by themselves. They usually lack the damage potential and rarely contribute anything meaningful to their team. Especially with Onsal. Its like a lost puppy that doesn't know any better.

Also doing the scholar Shield+Expedient+Dot on a Dragoon who is trying to engage unironically is the prime target to cause more harm to the premade team. As the Dragoon's extra damage taken debuff applies to the dot which can then be spread to their teammates. How strong of a dot? The dot with shield and expedient on a dragoon is close to a 83% increase in potency as a 0BH scholar when spread to the dragoon's teammates. In general the dot spread is very potent especially on Shatter where an enemy team can be given a 8% damage penalty and therefore it basically negates a BH1 if they have it, a negative BH1 if they don't have any.