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Here's my solution, make Sentinel last 3 minutes.

With full merits, the recast is still 4min 10 sec (I think), but would definitely give PLD a huge come back.

EDIT: Make it lvl 50 too so people don't sub just for it.

Or just have a JA Sentinel II and increase rampart the same way.

Then when they take away unlimited MP and the MNK gets hit for upwards of 400HP per hit from just a chigoe they'll soon be told (Level another job)

so boring.

Also make rampart last longer too.

Cover II : Takes damage in place of anyone with hate behind the paladin (short distance cone) with some -Dmg taken. Paladin may not cast spells or attack during this time untill Cover II wears out or canceled.

(Was thinking back to that anime Tower of Drauga where Jil used his shield and blocked everything for his PT hehehe)

Honestly if they fix Sentinel and Rampart to last much longer (change level and or make it PLD exclusive) and of course adjust the calculations accordingly PLD would rock. Simplest solution.

You know they basically just go from the JP's questions, so unless you know for sure they're complaining about PLD the way you are, they may very well be going on community questions, just a different community.

Not rly, mnk just goes back to /nin like it was before. Mnk was a powerhouse way before abyssea came out.

Yes they was, but even /nin they fell apart very easily outside Abyssea.

If the mnk sucked sure.

It'll make it go back to where any bandwagon monk won't be able to tank effectively, but as far as I'm personally concerned, I'll have no issues.

Need good MDT/PDT and DD sets rly and knowing when to use them and how to apply your perfect counter, etc. (For example some ppl just use perfect counter whenever it's up except when they need it). Also, a good chakra set, a lot of mnk's don't have, etc.

PLD is still very handy against abyssea HNMs, especially those can remove your cruor buffs and atmas. From which you have to tank without abyssea bonuses.

It is all about the strategy you use to fight HNMs and the setup built based on it.

tank azdaja from behind, moron

That's how the pros do it right?

that's how you don't get your *** atmas removed during that fight, yes

keep stoneskin up, hp bars +80%; it's not hard to eat spike flails (1.1-1.4k) when you've got a +2k hp bar

I have 3.6-4k in heroes zones depending on dominion bonuses just w/ cruor buffs and 6/6 merit abyssites, no hp atma

that's not enough hp my main man, go swap to pld and stack/fulltime hp gear so you sit at +7k while nothing swings at you because you can't hold hate on a shitty job

Noted

Is it fun being a fool, or does it just come naturally?

Wow, sad! very, very, sad!

it is considering you're implying ffxi is hard in 2011

your tears give me power

Wasn't hard in 2004 either, and Ruben was sorry!

I never said it was hard? Why ***? Does it make you superior in your mind?

And wow, playground insults, even sadder.

Bollocks.

My abyssea linkshell is one of the most successful abyssea linkshells on our server and we always use a PLD tank before anything else. If it was not for our PLD tank (they don't take to much damage, can hold hate well enough, don't do to much damage, can find all red/blue/yellow weaknesses) we would not be able to keep the NMs alive long enough to proc all the weaknesses we need.

Unlike MNKs and NINs which take a lot of damage and deal a lot of damage, which they need to do to hold hate, we would need far more WHMs to be able to cope with this which means that we have fewer people to try getting procs and kill it quickly when everything has been proc'd.

I do however agree that PLD does need something extra to make it easier for them to maintain hate. With the hate cap being really low (compared to the damage) that DDs can do now it is stupid. PLD could do with an native ability like provoke and some way of getting a higher hate cap (job trait maybe?)

just staple your lips together irl already for me, please

crazy glue is accepted too

God, trolls bore me. buzz off!

This guy is totally right. In my ls there is a guy named Foulone who is a Taru PLD and still kicks all the *** needed. I'm normally on THF and take hate occasionally but very rarely. Id say nine times out of ten he can out tank our nin. Abyssea is anyones playground. Use the right gear/atma and your PLD can be a great tank!

he calls me a troll, yet states mnks are so hindered dd/tanking-wise as /nin that we'll need a pld outside of abyssea in the coming update(s)

what the *** man

us MNKs needed PLDs the same way PLDs needed MNKs. PLDs held the hate while we beat the holyfuckingknobgobbling ***out of the mobs. Sure, since Abyssea came out the needs for PLD plummeted while for MNK sky-rocketed. But in the end, we will always remember PLD as the undisputed tank job of Vana'Diel.