Would Voke break PLD?

[Botosai]

I'd be curious to see if a pld could actually tank effectively with /mnk. Boost, so far as I understand it, gives 1/3 of the hate that voke does. So you'd have 2/3 as much hate from that if you spam it. If you use your other job abilities well, you could get a nice hate spike from dodge, focus, or chakra. On the other hand, you'd have to spend a lot of time focusing on just keeping hate through this stuff, and with the +VIT, you wouldn't take as much damage, so you wouldn't be able to cure yourself for hate as effectively (although the difference there may be negligible).

Anyway, I think it's totally possible in exp with an SATA skillchain, but it might not be as efficient as pld/war. I just feel bad that they're stuck with the one sub (although I've been mnk/war forever, so yeah).

You forgot that pld/mnk would get a total of two HP boosts at 75. Also since Chakra is based on VIT pld/mnk would really work well with it. My friends and I were messing around with pld/mnk at 70+ it worked rather well, although we did have a thf and a sam/thf to help keep hate as well.

 

[Firestreak]

Once you get off 2-3 cure 3's you're out of MP and just getting beaten on.

nin/whm wouldn't really work. They have no real way of gaining any direct spike hate besides ninjutsu spells which nins do regardless of sub (no provoke/stun/flash/whatever). They could hold a little bit of hate, but nothing on a nin/war, nin/drk, pld/nin, or even war/whm (yeah it works but I'd rather use 2 pld/nins if the -gas are a problem, just use pld MP to cure other tanks and not worry about being hit), and after roar you're not going to be able to pull back hate anything at all like the other tank combos.

And yeah the only time you should get interupted with cure 3 is if you're just completely not paying attention, notice hp is low, and spam macro, which is a noob move. :/

Point is less to gain hate and more to do curaga to cancel out the Aga damage quickly in such a way that healers won't pull hate which is already going to be an issue in a incredible long fight such as wyrms. Overtime the curaga hate will build up and then they will blink away some hits til main tank(s) get hate back.