In-Depth Tanking Class/Job Analysis.

[TirionCrey]

Just a little heads up, as prolly many people really want to know about that.

After doing some endgame stuff and/or fighting endgame related mobs, there is a definite choice on Stats now.

Put ALL your Attribute Points into Vitality!

Compared to STR and DEX, VIT is the one stat you really gonna need in Endgame. Stuff is hitting so hard that mitigation through STR, or raising Block/Parry Chance through DEX is neglectable cause of the amount of damage you get hit for. You need as much HP as you can get! This only applies to your Stat allocation though. Seing as any good WHM and/or SCH does use Stoneskin regularly in their healing cycle(and if you don't you're doing it wrong, period!!!), a bigger HP pool will benefit extra from this! So...raise your VIT. Based on meldable gear and their Stat Caps, there need to be more testing done to say for sure if VIT Materia is gonna be your first choice, since most of the times it is capped so low, that on HQ items you merely get +1 to +2 VIT out of a +7 Materia. I haven't checked out the Stat caps for let's say Parry for example, so it is not unlikely that you might wanna meld Parry, or maybe even Dex to your Gear, depending on which gives you greater benefit.

As I am SUPER busy in the game right now, I can't tell when I'm gonna do my next update on the guide. I implemented the rest of the GLA/PLD quests into it, haven't had a chance to do the WAR ones yet. But it shouldn't be too long before I will update the guide with Stat suggestions, macro guides and the rest of the class quests.

[CubemonkeyNYC]

Question:

So I took my lvl 24 Gladiator through Copperbell yesterday, and it all went fine except for the first "boss" room, where a ton of bombs and trash mobs spawn all over the place.

There was no way for me to keep the numbering going AND run around the room using [Flash] AND generating enough MP to keep using Flash. I lasted long enough for the mobs to get whittled down by the DPS, but I eventually died to one of the bomb's AOE while I was running around frantically. The others survived after I went down.

How do you handle a situation with a TON of adds? I've tanked the three dungeons up to this point with no problem aside from this.

[Ariyn]

Question:

So I took my lvl 24 Gladiator through Copperbell yesterday, and it all went fine except for the first "boss" room, where a ton of bombs and trash mobs spawn all over the place.

There was no way for me to keep the numbering going AND run around the room using [Flash] AND generating enough MP to keep using Flash. I lasted long enough for the mobs to get whittled down by the DPS, but I eventually died to one of the bomb's AOE while I was running around frantically. The others survived after I went down.

How do you handle a situation with a TON of adds? I've tanked the three dungeons up to this point with no problem aside from this.

Best thing to do for this boss is have the whole group stack in one spot. Mobs always go to the healer so you only have to flash once to get them. Then dps takes them down. They have very low hp so they die before any real threat is caused.