Awesome Tank with 50 Shield

[Hawk]

Anyone else spam Deflection? You should! Get a shield with 40+ levels and best wield rate for extended invulnerability time from physical attacks.

[Jamaz]

Which is why Deflection and Aegis Boon need to reduce much less damage. When you receive 0 damage from Notorious Monsters for nearly 40 seconds, there is something wrong with these abilities. It destroys basic battle tactics and makes the game simplistic beyond other MMOs. Further, I believe the reduction to 0 damage was not intended, and the algorithm is calculated incorrectly. These shield abilities make it like we are using "Invincible" 2-hour ability for 50% of the time.

[Neptune]

Pipe down Jamaz!

[Galadrios]

Even though I love the skill, I must agree with Jamaz. It is so good it seems to be broken.

[Mavven]

Alternating this and sentinel makes for very happy mages

[Aratharn]

With Aegis Boon and Deflection I feel like I am /NIN tanking all over again.. instead of keeping shadows up you just alternate those 2 abilities

[Obeadius]

With Aegis Boon and Deflection I feel like I am /NIN tanking all over again.. instead of keeping shadows up you just alternate those 2 abilities

Back to FFXI ~.^

I agree that using deflection and aegis boon does make the game more simplistic. However, we do have to keep in mind that this is just the beginning, and the dev team is trying to cater to all types of players, solo/hardcore/casual. After this spring and the first round of Battle System changes are implemented I think we will have a better idea of what what the future system will be like.

Also the "mini" NMs now might not even compare to what is in store for future Updates/Expansions/Patches. Since deflection and Aegis Boon are only effective against basic melle attacks, I think the dev team will implement mobs that can neutralize or go around these abilities.

[Cleric]

lol Neptune

[Aratharn]

Yeah for sure everything will be changing.

But for now it's very useful for the 5 NM's they do have, just like THM is extremely OP with Emulate. By the time they release new NM's we may not even have these same abilities!