Attention Tanks
Attention all tanks of Vana’diel: this post is for you.
There are two things that I just cannot stand when it comes to tanks: outdated armor and not using job abilities. I will break these down seperately.
Outdated Armor
Listen, I hate to break it to you but your job really depends on you staying alive in order to keep us alive. In order to minimize damage you should be wearing armor within at least two levels of your job level.
Now, I’m not one of those ZOMG ELITE types. I can understand if you’re a little short on gil and can only afford the normal quality gear. I don’t mean those types of people. I’m talking about people who are wearing level 16 gear at level 24.
Paladins.
If you are a paladin wearing level 16 gear at level 24 you might want to consider taking a short break from leveling to farm and get some better gear.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that at level 24 a pure damage dealer who is specializing in DD gear is not only pulling hate but is taking less damage than the tank. And that sort of brings me to my second point.
Using Job Abilities
You have them for a reason. Start using them.
I have seen, in multiple parties, paladins and warriors that refuse to provoke even when the mages are taking damage. I’ve seen paladins who refuse to use sentinel. I’ve seen horribly under-equipped paladins refuse to use sentinel after using provoke and nearly dying because of it. I’ve seen both refuse to use defender. And, naturally, I’ve seen paladins who refuse to cure themselves inbetween all of this.
Why?
Why are you people not using your abilities? I cannot understand this.
As a Samurai I use hasso like clockwork. I use meditate when I need to pull off some skill chains (remember those?) or need to do a lot of damage fast. And hey, when I pull too much hate, because I’m a damage dealer with up-to-date gear and you tanks refuse to use your abilities to even try to hold hate, I even switch to seigan and shoot off a few Third Eyes to try and stay alive.
It’s not hard people.
Really it isn’t.
If you’re too afraid to die, stop playing a tank. In fact, you might want to stop playing the game. I hate to break it to you people but death is a part of FFXI. If you die as a tank and your party members survive it means you did your job well. Take pride in your job.
Now get out there and start using what SquareEnix gave you.
May 12, 2008 at 12:57 am
“If you are a paladin wearing level 16 gear at level 24 you might want to consider taking a short break from leveling to farm and get some better gear.”
No, because the difference will be close to non-existent. You can get levels 16-24 in about 6 hours, who cares, Kampf gear is at 29. I can’t believe you are seriously suggesting upgrading gear every level at such low levels lololol
May 12, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Let’s see here.
At level 16 most jobs wear a bone harness. Bone harness: DEF:14. And bone leggings: DEF: 4. Grand total of DEF from those two parts (obviously there are others, but rings, neck, back, and other things all vary too much to take into account here): 18.
At level 24 tanks can now wear chainmail: def 21. For their feet they can wear greaves: 6. Total def from those two pieces: 27.
You’re telling me 9 defense (just from those two pieces) won’t make a difference when you go to the jungles of kazham and fight mandis, who hit twice every attack?
Of course, I should have ranted at how at level 30 I saw someone still wearing level 7 leather gear, but hey, one rant at a time.