Guard Skill

Bajaratt said:
THF sub doesn't work well because of the evasion bonus. Guard is the last defensive skill to be checked, so you want to evade as little as possible.

PLD, RDM and DNC make the best subs for skilling up guard.
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To be fair, DNC also has evasion bonus. The difference is, when at capped sub, THF gets you 2 evasion bonus traits, whereas DNC gets you one.
 
Also, DNC dances for useful things like healing and haste use up TP that would otherwise go to weaponskills. This would prolong fights, which pretty much negates the evasion bonus to some degree.
 
Nevlc said:
Also, DNC dances for useful things like healing and haste use up TP that would otherwise go to weaponskills. This would prolong fights, which pretty much negates the evasion bonus to some degree.
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I like /DNC for that reason.
 
I also found that you can get Guard Skillups from AoE weaponskills that you have 'evaded'?

I have a few screenshots of this happening in places like Salvage/Dynamis etc. Has anyone else seen it?

Neat glitch it seems.
 
Not a glitch. Guard was designed to do it. Genome reported on it a few months ago. Seems like it'd be a great thing to have fully leveled for say, Dynamis. :D

edit: Whoops, went back and checked the time on Genome's post, lol
 
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Designed to skillup on an "Evade?"

I can see it designed to activate on an AoE WS. But why does Guard proc if you're completely whiffed. that I can't fathom.
 
Evaded or missed?

From: http://genomeffxi.livejournal.com/18269.html
Genome said:
You can also notice that you will 'evade' WS a lot more often if you are in a position to guard (engaged and facing a monster) than you would otherwise (whereas evasion should work equally even while turned away or not engaged):
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You're either evading or guarding the damage. Apparently the game just displays it as evasion. Wierd, I know, but that's SE.

Genome's posted some screenshots to reflect this too. Guard's an amazing little skill :D
 
Hmm... well I'll be damned.

Looks like they shoulda have wrote it as something else. But left it as "evaded" or whatever.

Well that's pretty freakin cool. Time to finish skillin up Guard.
 
Progress

Guard skill is now 149 + all my gear added gets me to 198 guard skill.. How long has it been 2 months? Its been hard and very time consuming but go go go capped guard skill, if i didn't have evasion capped from thf, counter 5/5 and 8/8 h2h skill (up acc, ups counters rate) I wouldn't have such a headache ahead of me.. Atleast now i'm starting to get to a decent mob level that can hit me more than 10% of the time ><..

If you want to know how I did it, just ask!
 
I've actually been fairly surprised about how fast mine's gone up. I've been very little actual time into it and it's gone up 50 levels. (44-93.. yeah, severely gimp for 71 mnk) DNC also is excellent for low level... TP to full on surrounding mobs, then let your target mobs pound on you, use Curing Waltz 2 and Chakra every so often... I held a group of Sahagin in Yuhtunga for over a half hour a couple days ago doing that. Surprised a GM didn't yell at me.
 
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thats great achievement. I would have had it up there if I had more time to play damn your hp tho... wish taru had more :|
 
I'm almost done with parry finally. I must say I should have levelled sam earlier lol, getting skill ups so fast. 267/269. guard soon..
 
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