Will PLD Be Useful Again At Lvl 99?

Donald Trump made a career out of being rich, and still had to file for Bankruptcy protection.

Donald Trump made a career out of being rich, and still had to file for Bankruptcy protection.

Did you even read what I posted or are you just being a troll?

ITT: PLDs mad we called their job bad.

I did read what you posted, but I'm just being a *** with that comment. Maybe I'm just mired in the OP, but the thread is about PLD being useful, not being the best. If everyone were to just use "The best" job, FFXI would consist of BLU, RDM and BRD, and not a goddamn thing else.

Consider I've made a career out of tanking I think I know quite a bit.

Listen carefully.

If you go pld/nin about 90% of melee attacks directed at you should be absorbed by shadows.

Guess what!? Any job can /nin so almost every job takes about the same melee damage when /nin. The only exception to this are mobs that attack exceptionally fast in which case you don't blink tank. I think I clearly outlined that point because you bolded it.

Each job takes the same magic damage. (Unless pld has some -magic trait that I don't know about) Assuming this then you conclude that each job has the same damage taking capacity. You might argue Rampart and Sentinel and they are critical when holding a mob with two people, however, HNM is now dead so that point is moot.

Now that we've established that each job takes about the same physical and magical damage we move to the last aspect of tanking: Hate.

Damage is by far the greatest source of CE in the game. Guess what jobs do a lot of damage? (Hint: DDs) PLDs in theory should cap hate faster because of cure cheats but in terms of standard, constant, average, emnity gain a DD is greater. Exceptions to this are extremely high damage resistant mobs. I think we can both agree there arent many mobs out there like that.

PLD can be useful for SOME situations where u want minimal curing and you don't need to worry about hate that much. However, generally PLD is not that useful.

Each job takes the same magic damage.

Sorry to sound argumentive but I just want to point something out: If the pld in question has the shield relic then this point is kind of moot. I'm reasonably sure that no other job has -25% mdt plus the fact that pld has other gear that can migrate magic damage on top of that. This conbided with the fact that Aegis has a high shield block rate (for the 10% times when shadows are down) and the skills pld already has to lower the damage they take and you have a player that a monster would have a hard time killing. So the only problems that pld have to tanking is hate in my opinion. then again its not very easy to get that shield so my point may be pointless as well.

If the pld in question has the shield relic then this point is kind of moot. I'm reasonably sure that no other job has -25% mdt plus the fact that pld has other gear that can migrate magic damage on top of that. This conbided with the fact that Aegis has a high shield block rate (for the 10% times when shadows are down) and the skills pld already has to lower the damage they take and you have a player that a monster would have a hard time killing. So the only problems that pld have to tanking is hate in my opinion. then again its not very easy to get that shield so my point may be pointless as well.

I really hope you are being sarcastic. Because I'm reasonably sure every job can get at least 30% mdt.

Also as far as every job taking the same amount of magic dmg from the other guy... gearing and magic defense bonus job trait says high. And too a much lesser extent int values. So if you want to go with just job naked whm or rdm would take significantly less magic dmg than other jobs

But that was the point everyone was making. Why would u use a job for something that another job is generally better at? Yes, PLD can be useful then. Is PLD generally the best? No.

I meant to say FFXI Career lol. *** you guys I graduated from the College of Windurst wtih a PHD a MS and a BS

BS= Bull ***
MS= More of the same
PHD= Piled higher deeper

cliche joke etc. Peace I'm going to watch family guy.

I did read what you posted, but I'm just being a *** with that comment.

Maybe I'm just mired in the OP, but the thread is about PLD being useful, not being the best. If everyone were to just use "The best" job, FFXI would consist of (SAM), RDM and BRD, and not a goddamn thing else.

Amount of dmg taken during a fight is less important than rate of damage taken. In almost any fight you do outside of zerging you should be self sustaining

I'm pretty sure most aegis pld have MDB sets, be pretty sad if they didn't, but I think it's fair to say that most DD jobs don't bother with one.

Btw I looked on the forums but I couldn't find one that talked about it. Did Divine Emblem do anything to improve pld hate issues? or anything to improve there play style in general?

Btw I looked on the forums but I couldn't find one that talked about it. Did Divine Emblem do anything to improve pld hate issues? or anything to improve there play style in general?

a relic isn't an automatic sign of a good player as bigpun so amply demonstrated

Btw I looked on the forums but I couldn't find one that talked about it. Did Divine Emblem do anything to improve pld hate issues? or anything to improve there play style in general?

Maybe I'm just mired in the OP, but the thread is about PLD being useful, not being the best. If everyone were to just use "The best" job, FFXI would consist of BLU, RDM and BRD, and not a goddamn thing else.

good or bad player.
an aegis pld probably have multiple MDB sets seeing how much was invested in the job. skill is irrelevent there

I hope I'm being wooshed cause you forgot COR, DNC and MNK.

And get rid of BLU.

bg's gimpthread says otherwise

the skills you need to get a relic(intense patience/a lot of money for rmt/the patience/resources to fishbot on multiple characters/large scale manipulation of fellow players)

are an entirely different skillset than the ability to play the game well

sometimes they coincide and you get a good player with a relic

sometimes they do not and you get a gimpthread entry

I hope I'm being whoosed here because you said get rid of blu

I really don't wanna go over this again. Basically anything BLU can do something can do better.

But again, Nightfyre in my LS, BLU all the time (pretty much). And just recruited another BLU ***.

I'm pretty sure most aegis pld have MDB sets, be pretty sad if they didn't, but I think it's fair to say that most DD jobs don't bother with one.