(02-03-2014, 03:25 AM)Kieron Lohengrin Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYxu6yMYSs
Kieron answered, in a way, to what you said with this video with a DRG tanking Titan HM. He's using Skull Sunder all along to be able to (cross skill or not, you can access to an aggro skill which is interesting to notice).
Also, I have to add that beside those scale gear, you also have the possibility to wear haubergeons (like this one) that have the same balance def/mdef stats as AF and further.
And I did compare the lv 46/47 set's stats to the AF1 (which is suppose to be close, ilvl wise) and this is the result :
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STR & VIT are capped and I think you can compensate the other stats with the 25 materia slots. You will also notice that the scale stats are all DPS stats, none of them are tank.
That's why I thought that it was ultra weird to be in a situation that allow you to have a really nice gear and some nice DPS stats (if you have HQ items + materia) and suddenly being ultra weak when you try on your AF1.
I'm just trying to understand here what happened inside the dev head when they created scales armors or decided to not create armors with the same kind of stats after the lv 47. I had a look on the official board and I found nothing about that (maybe I didn't looked there properly, it's not that easy to search sometimes ^^ ), I'm really curious about that topic because never in a game I saw this kind of situation.
Even if you think that it could be a weird niche, that could explain how was though DRG role in the first place and maybe be a track to answer to your questions about "how DRG are suppose to be good in" . Maybe DRG were thought as off tank, able to handle some damages, keeping aggro with some cross skill, having some defensive buff (cross or not) and all. Maybe we could have some answers by looking at how were DRG on the first release of Final Fantasy XIV (and maybe even XI).
Also be sure that there is no hate on my messages, I'm a lv 46 DRG with a nice scale gear that don't understand the interest of wearing his AF1 gear that would drastically lower his stats for giving a really few bonus.
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