~First And Final Line Of Defense V2.0~

Sorry know this has been asked before but some of the answers not clear. Could someone suggest top 3-4 Ambuscade capes? If you could only have three what would they be? For main tanking cape is shield block rate good?

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105% SIRD with merits 49% CP I for my healing magic set.
3465 HP in rank 1 unity capped PDT I.

This is what i use for my cures in most main tank situations, does require weapon swap dropping Burt. Manage to keep HP drop to a minimum and high cp.

All my tank sets try to keep HP over 3.3k, am i missing something? As most other sets i look at the golden # seems to be not much higher than 3k.

HP,Emn,DT
FC,SIRD
DEX,ACC/ATT,DA,PDT
STR,ACC/ATT,WSdmg,DT

4)20 DEX,20 ACC/ATT,10 DA, 10PDT, 10 Acc

5)20 STR,20 ACC/ATT,10 WSdmg,10DT 10Acc

You shouldn't need a cure pot cape or sword swap.
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This is capped SIRD and cure pot with a 5+ cure pot roll on the feet. 4+ if you're in the top unity. And you should need to upgrade to 1% SIRD on Nourishing to cap that.

2nd ear can be whatever you want to round out your set. Tuisto Earring to balance out your HP, Cryptic or Trux for enmity, Genmei for a bit more PDT.

How much HP though? The point of the sword is it allows me to keep hp high while still capping cp. Tanking set has 3.5k hp so I don't want to drop 400-500hp to cure.

Show your sets. Its pointless discussion otherwise. Whole question is kinda weird anyway. If someone dont want to swap sword, then swapping sword is not an option. If someone can swap sword, then swapping sword is ok. Its that simple.

If you want to argue that you have tanking set with 3500 and dropping Burtgang is worth to keep 300-400 hp more than you can try, but show your sets to justify this, because you for sure doing some sacrifices for that HP (which generally isnt required for anything and sounds like high HP just to have high HP). Losing TP, potencial AM, 36% physical damage reduction, +23 enmity and Reduced enmity decrease seems way too much to not lose 300-400HP when you are at 3k anyway. Now most other useful sets are also around 3k hp, so you would need to use HP sword for them too, so basically you have burtgang only in idle?

They have shown it on the 5th post on this page.

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This is the set I tank in. I've tried to build all other sets to keep hp as close as possible so there's no big drops. I'm just interested to know if 3k hp is a more sensible number while keeping Burtgang or though sacrafice of the Pdt ii and tp you can maintain high hp for other sets.

Burtgang is in most other midcast sets, flash/voke/blue magic etc. Its only dropped for cures, phalanx and precast for fc which allows me to hit 71% fc.

On the topic of swords i havent yet got my Burtgang and I want peoples thoughts on swords? I have the following.

Malignance.
Brilliance - dmg+13, shield skill+9, divine+14 and enmity+6.
Nixxar.
Naegling.

Obviously Naegling is the best for actual damage though I was looking at tanking with Malignance though with NMs cutting status resistance in half would the enmity from Brilliance be a better choice?

On the topic of swords i havent yet got my Burtgang and I want peoples thoughts on swords? I have the following.

Malignance.
Brilliance - dmg+13, shield skill+9, divine+14 and enmity+6.
Nixxar.
Naegling.

Obviously Naegling is the best for actual damage though I was looking at tanking with Malignance though with NMs cutting status resistance in half would the enmity from Brilliance be a better choice?

I think Brilliance is arguably the best non-Burtgang tanking sword. Deacon Sword is another pre-mythic option to consider. Selection of paladin swords for tanking outside of Burt is kinda lacking honestly...

Can someone give me an example of how items like burtgang creed collar and empy legs reduces emnity loss while taking damage works?
Is there any values for these I understand that it does the same as the new bard song just unsure what values look like

I had a much more involved post typed up for this, but I hit F5 like an idiot and it is gone. I just can't do that post again, so this is the cliffnotes version.

Disclaimer: I can't read, JP, google translate, etc,etc. Someone, please, translate this stuff.

A JP blog post by Bun of the Two Man Cell blog tested the effects of enmity+ gear on CE loss. As well as how this interacts with CE loss gear like Burtgang.

2 enmity = CE loss -1%, up to a cap of -50% CE loss at +100 enmity.

I have done a few tests that support this. So I think I'm interpreting the post correctly.

The Enmity+ CE loss- is in a different multiplicative term with the reduction from equipment with the "Reduces enmity loss when taking damage" effect.

They also had these values listed for various gear with this effect. I was already aware of these values, but looking around it doesn't seem like they are well documented so I will include them here.

Burtgang(99): 20%
Creed Collar: 5%
Chevalier's Cuisses + 1: 12%
Erilaz Surcoat + 1: 12%

Chevalier's and Erilaz have the value on the gear description, but I included them anyway.

So, with the enmity+ CE reduction and the gear reduction, PLD can reach 68.5% CE loss reduction. 50% from enmity+100 and 37% from gear. so 0.5*0.63=0.685, or 68.5%. RUN is at 56% reduction.

There's also a post about Foe Sirvente but the google translation seems worse than usual and it's hard to make much out.

I'm fairly certain it says that Foe Sirvente is the same term as "reduce enmity loss" gear. I'm less certain about this next part, but I think it's also saying that "reduces enmity loss" gear's effect caps at 50%, making the max reduction 75% (50% from enmity+ and 50% from reduces loss gear.)

I've not done any testing to verify the Foe Sirvente info, and as I said the google translate was.. bad. So take it with a grain of salt.