Svylyons...
You are right, of course, with pretty much every point you made in that post, and I thank you for not leaping down my throat at some of my more careless phrases. I'll rephrase... ^_^
svlyons wrote:
Before lvl 37 (when NIN gets Utsusemi: Ni), one NIN shouldn't try to tank the mob the entire battle. NINs don't get to wear the best armor, so their defense will be lacking. And they won't have very good VIT either. So when they do get hit, they get hit hard.
Ideally, I enjoy being in parties where the hate is more or less static. It's what I've come to expect in my parties since that's more or less how I handle things as a PLD. (Go, high VIT, yay!) I admit it makes me a little nervous when the tank loses copious amounts of HP suddenly. (Didn't really need to say all this, just thought I'd throw it in.)
svlyons wrote:
That party setup confuses me. I would think that the party could easily stick with just the PLD as full-time tank, and replace the NIN with a damage dealer.
You're right, it IS confusing. Especially considering that NIN/WAR makes an excellent backup/side-tank to take stress off the PLD. A lot of parties choose not to see it this way, however, which is what disturbs me. They'd rather see more Utsusemi cast than let the PLD do the only job he's pretty much made for. I'm not entirely sure why this is... Remember, I said a lot of the time I am FORCED to take the backup role, albeit usually against my wishes.
svlyons wrote:
It sounds to me like PLDs don't like the competition. There are so many choices for damage dealing that it's nuts. Now that the trend gives parties an additional option for a tank, it's "unjust"?
This was my bad, I wrote what you quoted with the intention of putting the orignal poster's thoughts into words, not expressing a personal belief. Sorry you took that the wrong way, bad wording on my part. I really meant to put quotation marks around that word "Unjustly" as well, also my bad. ^_^
I think the inspiration behind the original poster's initial claims was that he simply didn't like the feeling that the job he'd worked so hard to bring to greatness was in jeopardy of becoming "obsolete". The same inspiration called me to put my thoughts here. It's not so much jealousy that there are alternatives to the glorious tanking role, it's more that I see NINs as an effective tank by themselves, and with all the talk about how great and unhittable they can be, it starts to make you think "Is there a reason I'm striving so hard to level this PLD when NIN is aparently better?"
I'm sure the same thoughts apply to any damage dealer, what with the number of jobs that fall under that category.
Edited, Mon Sep 13 13:39:35 2004 by Psylight