What Jobs Are Currently The Best Tanks?

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What jobs are currently the best tanks?
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By Pantafernando 2014-12-16 13:36:18
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Best tank is PLD with ochain/aegis shield. Second best is RUN, with fights heavy magic oriented RUN is prefered over PLD, but with physical mobs, PLD is superior thanks to shield dmg mitigation.

Due to high dmg DDs can deal nowaday, its hard for any tank to keep hate unless there are hate mitigation tools like annihilator/coronach, yoichi/namas, decoy shot, trick attack, so normally, melee based setups dont favor tanking. In those cases, the DD will also act as a tank.

Evasion tank became mostly obsolete as most NMs favor AoE dmg, so bypassing evasions checks.

Prefered jobs (based on PUG frequency, not based in performance, as this one is always debatable):

Prefered DDs: SAM, MNK (for overall delve), RNG (for overall battlefield).

Prefered tank: PLD R/E.

Prefered healer: WHM.

Prefered suport: BRD (overall), GEO RDM are becoming common, COR is becoming uncommon.

THF update can change the current preference, but its too little time since update for community to get used to this new possibility.

Again, this is based on how often those jobs are asked by PUGs, by no means Im saying they are the most efficient in their category.
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By Siren.Sieha 2014-12-16 13:37:07
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There is only one tank. the rest are just there because whms hardly ever run out of mp.

also for random questions like this, it doesnt need a new thread every question you have about coming back to the game.

use this thread.
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/29127/random-question-thread-ffxi-related/

also shout groups dont exists so hopefully you can find a ls to go with.
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By Asura.Highwynn 2014-12-16 14:01:57
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RUN keeps hate much easier than PLD but RUN takes a lot of damage from physical tp moves.
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By Bahamut.Seekerstar 2014-12-16 14:11:24
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Asura.Highwynn said: »
RUN keeps hate much easier than PLD but RUN takes a lot of damage from physical tp moves.

Agreed x1000 on the whole hate keeping thing- Rune Fencer's enmity suite is superior to Paladin's, provided said RUN knows how to use their JA.

Disagreed on taking a lot of damage, though- RUN/BLU is one of the more resilient combinations out there, with a few more toys than other subjobs can give you. Cocoon grants a def+ that can make up for their light armor categories, and assuming you have Inspiration at 5/5 (and if you're playing RUN seriously, you'd better) you can keep it up all day long.

This isn't even counting the benefits should you decide on the ergon GS. Epeolatry= smex.

Rune Fencer's drawbacks are the fact that it can be very gear-intensive, and I have to agree that getting that DT as high as a paladin can be challenging.


As much as I love rune fencer, though, most times if you need someone to hold a room full of mobs, you probably want a paladin.

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