Edit: To be clear, this whole post refers to SHADOWBRINGERS. I didn't realize until after I posted that there are potentially two "SB" expansions.
In other MMOs I'm a fervent tank almost purely for open world play, but I've been leveling as a ranged DPS from level 1 since returning to FFXIV purely because eventually dungeons and trials come up and... let's just say that I am not new to tanking, but I'm retired from tanking dungeons for live players that I don't know. Especially in a game I'm "newish" to.
That all said, I've been feeling the "overworld inferiority" of being a squishy caster while questing in the open world, and especially when I rarely leave that beaten MSQ path. The MSQ is a relatively curated experience, but some day I'm going to turn around and do side quests, and I will be a tank class when I do that... meanwhile, as I approach level 60 and the chance to change relatively seamlessly to gunbreaker as I changed from summoner to red mage at 50, I'm left wondering if, at 70 when my Road to 70 runs out and I inevitably have to do stuff other than the MSQ to advance... I'm wondering how feasible a switch to a tank class in SB might be given the existence of the trust system.
Please, please don't turn this thread into a discussion of how I should try tanking dungeons. I've been a tank for over a decade in other games, I know how the responsibility game works in dungeons and I'm on vacation from all that in FFXIV. That said, I do still like the tank's ability to handle adds in the open world (and also please don't tell me that DPS can too, I know that, but tanks are inherently superior in this as a result of their core design), and the trust system, if I understand it correctly is my opportunity to be a tank outside dungeons, and be beholden to no live players in the dungeons that will be necessary to complete the SB MSQ.
So, in short, here's what I'm asking:
If I go from being a ranged DPS to a tank spec on the dot at the onset of Shadowbringers, will the trust system be in play for most if not all of the dungeons and trials that will pop up as part of that MSQ completion? Can I "be a tank" for the SB phase of the game without being "another player's tank," because of the trust system?
Bonus question: And... if I can... what does that do to the queues should I remain a DPS? I LOVE the idea of "not needing" other players, but wouldn't that make the queues for other players (especially DPS) a wasteland?
Thanks in advance for any and all helpful replies!
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In other MMOs I'm a fervent tank almost purely for open world play, but I've been leveling as a ranged DPS from level 1 since returning to FFXIV purely because eventually dungeons and trials come up and... let's just say that I am not new to tanking, but I'm retired from tanking dungeons for live players that I don't know. Especially in a game I'm "newish" to.
That all said, I've been feeling the "overworld inferiority" of being a squishy caster while questing in the open world, and especially when I rarely leave that beaten MSQ path. The MSQ is a relatively curated experience, but some day I'm going to turn around and do side quests, and I will be a tank class when I do that... meanwhile, as I approach level 60 and the chance to change relatively seamlessly to gunbreaker as I changed from summoner to red mage at 50, I'm left wondering if, at 70 when my Road to 70 runs out and I inevitably have to do stuff other than the MSQ to advance... I'm wondering how feasible a switch to a tank class in SB might be given the existence of the trust system.
Please, please don't turn this thread into a discussion of how I should try tanking dungeons. I've been a tank for over a decade in other games, I know how the responsibility game works in dungeons and I'm on vacation from all that in FFXIV. That said, I do still like the tank's ability to handle adds in the open world (and also please don't tell me that DPS can too, I know that, but tanks are inherently superior in this as a result of their core design), and the trust system, if I understand it correctly is my opportunity to be a tank outside dungeons, and be beholden to no live players in the dungeons that will be necessary to complete the SB MSQ.
So, in short, here's what I'm asking:
If I go from being a ranged DPS to a tank spec on the dot at the onset of Shadowbringers, will the trust system be in play for most if not all of the dungeons and trials that will pop up as part of that MSQ completion? Can I "be a tank" for the SB phase of the game without being "another player's tank," because of the trust system?
Bonus question: And... if I can... what does that do to the queues should I remain a DPS? I LOVE the idea of "not needing" other players, but wouldn't that make the queues for other players (especially DPS) a wasteland?
Thanks in advance for any and all helpful replies!
Continue reading...