What I've noticed so far on PLD:
- It plays very differently from my other jobs. Instead of being a reaction-type job (SCH & DNC with Cures/-na spells, BLU with Stun), it's more of an... anticipation job where you anticipate what the mob, and other party members will do and budget the hate tools you have in order to keep the mob's attention.
- Gearing up for PLD is quite different. In BLU & DNC, I'd focus on accuracy items, then haste and strive for a decent balance of those two and Dex/Str. For PLD, I'm looking for +enmity, then defense/vit, then haste and finally accuracy.
- For keeping hate (at least in exp parties), doing more damage is better to maintain hate compared to stacking on more defense. During our LS parties, I experimented a little with using Defender vs. Berserk... I found that I lost hate more with Defender up, and it didn't really reduce damage taken. On the other hand, Berserk let me put out more damage (especially with Vorpal Blade which can nearly hit 400 at 100% TP) makes it a lot easier to hold hate.
- Heavy armor looks nice! Ok... I admit it, I leveled PLD cos the AF looked cool xD Iron Musketeer armor also looked good, though I never really got to wear it effectively due to all the level sync parties.
Other fun PLD things... I think partying with Dexie & Zu also gave me a lot of training/practice on holding hate. The one non-LS Lesser Colibri party I had ended up with me holding hate against a DRK using Souleater + a THF SATAing him, and a RNG doing his best to get killed. I had to Cover the RNG a couple of times, but overall it seems that I'm doing okay... got two friends requests out from that party :o
So... I'm really looking forward to getting PLD up to 75 and coming to events as a new role. I've enjoyed doing that as a nuking SCH, various roles as a DNC, and a tank would be an interesting change. I still need to figure out how to gear up as well as I can without breaking the bank or spending days camping random NMs.
Other fun things
Other fun things include... some minor accomplishments this week:
- Finished PLD AF (well, of course!)
- Finally finished one set of "endgame" gear... Got my Denali Jacket from a random pickup Nyzul group Saturday afternoon just before Dynamis! Now I have something to run around town in xD
- Got Karou a set of Askar pants... at long last... though we desperately need some Askar head drops for everyone now x.x
Somewhat failures...
- Dynamis drop rates are low as always... annoying event... at least I had some fun by changing things up a little and being main assist...
- Limbus failure... not sure what went wrong here... can't quite figure it out. Really need Utty to be leading this. It should have been an easy zone with 6 people. Guess I pushed too hard?
2 comments:
lol, so what job's next, after Pld, on your list? Will you finally lvl Sam after that?
I still have a lot of work to do yet on Rng myself... even though I'm 74... I lack decent gear badly. I've found Shigeto to be better than Selene's bow now except during a new moon since shigeto has a consistant +25 rng atk. Guess I need to camp eastern shadow... which reminds me... i remember a certain someone saying they were gonna help me camp it *hint hint* It is a soloable mob by damn near any lvl 75... but getting the spawn time is the biggest pain followed by claim if it happens to be a weekend or evening.
The hardest slot to find decent gear for Rng seems to be the leg slot... like almost every other job in the friggin game. You have to either drag everyone with to a ridiculous teir II ZNM, accumulate 20k assault points in mamool training grounds, or sacrifice more of your life for seemingly endless events in which your chance to get the drop you want nearly doesn't exist, or last but not least... have access to an area down a very long and painful mission line.
Anyway, the easiest one is proving to be the Assault points since i already have about 14k. These pants are mostly for str and acc until something better comes along with atk and either str and/or agi, or a NICE rng ability enhancement.
Some day I might bring Pld out of retirement, but for now its armor is on display in some NPC's shop collecting dust. Finish Rng first, then Drk/Mnk/Brd/Rdm/whatever else i feel like leveling...
Hmm... we'll see once I finished PLD and play around with it for long enough that I feel that I know the job well enough to do everything with... that tends to be about the time when I start looking for a new challenge.
However, if I were to guess, I'd think my next job might be Bounty Hunter. The Old Republic is looking a lot more interesting to me compared to the fantasy settings... Not too sure if I'd want to play FFXI-2 (aka FFXIV) unless they move characters over...
From a business standpoint, I wouldn't allow characters transfers... why bother when you know the players will simply pay for both games and pay for double the subscription fee?
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