Paladin....

[Rinoah]

that would require getting injured as the puller, which is usually something the puller doesn't want. In fact i only sub nin on thf because of those 3 shadows keeping my ass from getting raped on each pull.

You tried raptors yet? Fun times.

Besides it makes sense. You lose hate and other members are taking damage, do you A) cast cure on you when you have more hp than them and get similar if not less hate and leave them damaged (not to mention the WHM building up hate when they go to heal the injured party member).

Or just heal them get hate back and continue?

Of course ideally you wouldn't lose hate in the first place and there would be no one in the party to cure, but how often does that happen? actually most people posting here are tanks so probably the wrong crowd...

 

[Jakey]

this is gonna be off topic but..

PLD 1-37? try WAR WAR is such a better tank at 1-37 than any other job. Will have the most defense with the best attack rating and hate holding skills as a WAR/MNK. Up until 37 PLD won't have enough MP to hold hate for continuous fighting unless they bring drinks and/or ethers (I don't know any PLDs 1-37 that would). NIN will die too fast against most things cause they only have Utsusemi: Ichi. Nah.. I'd say WAR/MNK -> 37 then NIN or PLD -> 75 (PLD can be a fine tank for a party if they try

I donno my taru pld has held hate off hundred fists without invincible but I think that was because the mnk was gimp. Taru PLD with defense food and decent gear owns, only need a whm to reduce down time with my lovely mp pool. can usually do 2-3 fights before I run out of mp even without any one else to heal me, and yes I've been the only healer in parties before.

I will admit though I had a lot of fun as taru war/mnk then war/nin after lvl 30 being main tank in parties, especially those bees in crawlers nest doing final sting and always leaving me with like 50 hp.


When is comes to PLD vs. NIN at higher lvls I always prefered a good nin cause they could do damage which speeds up fights and they usually take less damage than a pld. I know many other blms who will only party with PLDs, but a NIN with a THF or /thf to help with hate usually does fine and I know how to hold back.

With DRG I used to love ninjas, the DRG, THF, NIN set up just works wonders with hate, could set up great SATA SCs, THF could SATA off me and I could drop hate or I could voke and put SATA on NIN it all worked so nicely. Now in merit point parties where we generally just spam ws, so I've been seeing hate issues with both plds and nins, especially on those birds in lufaise medows where I wont even go without my ninja sub or a really good pld.

 

[Tim Wakefield]

I'm not calling you out saying you did, i'm just saying that your memory is worse then mine.

Marijuana...