Thread: [Guide] Paladin Tanking Compendium 2.0

Originally Posted by looks useful, and I think I'll be able to do well on either tank role in this encounter. I'm a bit worried about Titan though - still got some parts that need to be swapped for DL/hoplite gear:

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What do you guys think, will I be able to MT Titan? I've got ~900 Tomes of P. stacked, I'm not sure if I should buy gloves with them, or maybe try to get pants+boots or chest+head with them? I'm not really fond of the idea of buying chest though, since that'll be probably my first purchase once I got enough tomes of M., since it's supposed to be BiS.

Buy the pants first, also I would suggest that tank be in full DL gear and atleast get garuda's weapon especially since Titan hits hard. I think people will agree with me.

Oh, that reminded me of a question I had - just HOW important is a weapon from Garuda for Titan fight for a tank? I mean, PLD's dps is a tiny at the very least, and after killing the Titan you get your relic weapon - is it worth grinding Garuda for that drop? I'm lucky that I have a FC, so I'm not condemned to pugging Titan over and over again...

EDIT: The difference between my current weapon & Garuda's would be +5 STR, +5 VIT -4 Parry.

Originally Posted by Kenka

Question for the tanks out there.

Is tanking Garuda with the Immortal Flames weapon acceptable? I'm having really bad luck getting Ifrit's Blade...

Yes that's fine

Just exactly how much does DEX have an effect on block / parry rates?

I know this topic was made a while back, but today i thought i'd try something crazy:

In sword oath i'd wait until the MT in CM would get full hate, then i'd spam the heck out of RoH without combo. My current CD is 2.44 and working on 2.4 and i noticed that hate is realllllly quick to get until i have to swap to shield oath to take the hits, then it's back to combo mode if i wanna do 'damage'. The guys all had better gear than me and would combo, so i'm wondering if anyone has had a similar experience on harder mobs as i've only done so on ifrit, garuda, and normal stuff.


*edit* i forgot to mention that HQ Militia was somehow forgotten here. Tanks can easily get their hands on 3 to 5 peices and meld them to the point where they're close to darklight but less effort. After looking at what i have, materias i've yet to apply, and boots i realize DL is only a few def and 170hp/~15str more than my auction house gear and all it took was selling 2 potash to get it. That alone allows me to save up tomes for accessories (and possibly other jobs) or make money to work towards my heavy darksteel set if i wanna do 22 runs for a set. The work and time really doesn't justify DL imho and especially with my play time.