Firstly made a post about PLD before, and from what I understand, some people find it amazing, yet still I have no idea what they are seeing.
Within this game tanking seems somewhat skewed, like it doesn’t really have an identity, because apparently you should prioritise DPS over surviving as a tank. If I wanted to yolo swag bolo DEEPS, I would just play a dps. I find that tanking isn’t what tanking is in other games over here – as there is too much focus on maximising dps. I watch guides on how to play my tank class and the content creator is showing me dps rotations from start to finish. It’s WEIRD…
I don’t know of square made a mistake by letting players think tanks should be dps that just get healed or they believe healers should heal more (lets not get started on healers). I just think it’s all so silly and detrimental.
Imagine playing the posterboy of tanks, but you within your job only ONE ready to go active cd when go into a fight. Yes, ONE. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, because you have some time until you can use sheltron with your oath gauge, meaning you just have sentinel and that’s it outside of your role actions. Yet to me, I felt that (at 78+) you should be actively using clemency with requi as a strong source of mitigation, because again, you have so little in the way of mitigation, unless you like RNG… But imagine to my horror, that the community doesn’t think you should use your insta cast high potency heal to survive, you should just YOLO SWAG BOLO DEEPS! And then you are frowned upon for using your SURVIVABILITY TOOLKIT AS A TANK! You can’t make this crap up.
I can only imagine in WoW, you gave any Tank a high potency heal and said “yeah but don’t use it though, you need to damage”, the eye rolling would be immense. It’s like having a Ferrari and living next to a race track but never driving it. It’s retardation.
Anyway, I AM going to use clemency after requi and HOLD requi as a defensive for clemency use, I will only hit damaging abilities if I am comfortable. Because to me, clemency SHOULD be part of your tanking rotation. PERIOD.
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Within this game tanking seems somewhat skewed, like it doesn’t really have an identity, because apparently you should prioritise DPS over surviving as a tank. If I wanted to yolo swag bolo DEEPS, I would just play a dps. I find that tanking isn’t what tanking is in other games over here – as there is too much focus on maximising dps. I watch guides on how to play my tank class and the content creator is showing me dps rotations from start to finish. It’s WEIRD…
I don’t know of square made a mistake by letting players think tanks should be dps that just get healed or they believe healers should heal more (lets not get started on healers). I just think it’s all so silly and detrimental.
Imagine playing the posterboy of tanks, but you within your job only ONE ready to go active cd when go into a fight. Yes, ONE. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, because you have some time until you can use sheltron with your oath gauge, meaning you just have sentinel and that’s it outside of your role actions. Yet to me, I felt that (at 78+) you should be actively using clemency with requi as a strong source of mitigation, because again, you have so little in the way of mitigation, unless you like RNG… But imagine to my horror, that the community doesn’t think you should use your insta cast high potency heal to survive, you should just YOLO SWAG BOLO DEEPS! And then you are frowned upon for using your SURVIVABILITY TOOLKIT AS A TANK! You can’t make this crap up.
I can only imagine in WoW, you gave any Tank a high potency heal and said “yeah but don’t use it though, you need to damage”, the eye rolling would be immense. It’s like having a Ferrari and living next to a race track but never driving it. It’s retardation.
Anyway, I AM going to use clemency after requi and HOLD requi as a defensive for clemency use, I will only hit damaging abilities if I am comfortable. Because to me, clemency SHOULD be part of your tanking rotation. PERIOD.
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