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[Darius]

Honestly, I think NIN are fine right now. True they are awesome "tanks" but if I was a DRG or a WAR or a BLM, I wouldnt care what they did to make PLD better. They could give PLD a 4:30 invincible ability with a 5 min recast allowing you to use it 30 secs after it ends and I wouldnt care. The fact of the matter is that SE is making adjustments so that people have options. If you want to blink tank, then be a NIN. If You want to be a badass looking character that can take hits like no other job in the game, then be a PLD.

If you ask me, they are trying to make the "tanks" more balanced when comparing the 2.

[Bahamut2000X]

True. But doesn't help that SE doesn't push for it, after NIN became a tank they dropped all support of SAM and WAR's as tanks. Sam never even got to see the light of day tanking before they were made DD's. T_T

Really they just to throw in some new armor that WAR and SAM could wear at lower-higher levels that are pretty good tanking gear, then sort of push players to try them like that. God knows if they don't push us to play a job correctly someone will screw it up (I.E. Debuffing/DD NIN initially, becoming tanks, SAM tanks becoming DD, SMN becoming ghetto WHM's, etc.) Really the FFXI community isn't the best at playing jobs right or allowing new combinations to form. To this day I still get crap for leveling my melee 20-30 with a /DRG sub instead of /WAR, even though I out DD all the /WAR's of those levels.

[Darius]

Originally Posted by Bahamut2000X ^

To this day I still get crap for leveling my melee 20-30 with a /DRG sub instead of /WAR, even though I out DD all the /WAR's of those levels.

This is funny cause when I was leveling my RDM to 37, the only other job I could use as a sub was my PLD. I was a debuffer/healer most of the time but occasionally meleed too. Some people complained that I was gimped because I was using /PLD but after scrolling through the text list, my damage was only about 5-10 less than the DDs in the party and I was still curing the people taking damage WHILE I debuffed. Ontop of that, someone once complained that I should level the subs of subs of subs (which I do agree, though at the time I had 3 levels left till I was 37 and then it was back to my PLD so no point) and mentioned something about me not being very good for the pt, when he had a friend PL us. Hmm, with a PL it shouldnt matter whos in the pt.

[Omecle]

All very nice, can't wait to try these out! I got my computer set up at g/f's place so I can play a little now. <3

[Bahamut2000X]

From the looks of it these are related to Salvage as I've heard. Damn not to get 2k Assault points and find some people to start doing Salvage with. >.>

I want me that Ares Cuirass so badly. T_T

[ThePheonix]

Well, Looks like there's a way to survive AV's Meteor now (as long as sentinel works for all types of damage) so even subbing paladin would be enough to take only ~300 dmg or so from that thing.

The rest of the salvage armor sets I found here.

[Bahamut2000X]

Originally Posted by ThePheonix ^

Well, Looks like there's a way to survive AV's Meteor now (as long as sentinel works for all types of damage) so even subbing paladin would be enough to take only ~300 dmg or so from that thing.

I believe Sentinel is physical mitigation only. Though I havn't tested it out enough, but it would make sense as all it did was give physical defense before anyways. And I believe Meteor is magic based damage. Though Rampart would do the trick now with the new Magic Stoneskin effect it gives.

[Darius]

Yep. Sounds like Rampart is the ability to use against AV. Cant wait till I fight it