Hi guys,
Forgive the length of this post. I'm in an HNMLS over on Lakshmi, and we've been moderately successful so far (killed genbu, suzaku, seiryu and aspidochelone as our biggest 'trophies'). However, this is a question for your tanks (more specifically, paladin tanks). What do you prefer in terms of body armor? I notice 4 major body armors to choose from:
1. Normal AF stuff. Not really that great, but +8 enmity, which is always nice.
2. Adaman/Gem equipment, AKA the Purpley Stuff. It has good +enmity and nice +vit bonuses.
3. Koenig abjuration gear. No +Enmity, but massive massive +hp, +defense and +vit. -Dex and strength hurt the chances of actually doing anything besides being a meat shield.
4. AF2, from dynamis. Not terribly feasible, since our dynamis runs haven't been very yield-worthy, we tend to get tons of relic weapons instead (*shakes fist at dynamis*).
So the trouble our tanks have seen so far mostly is firstly staying alive, and secondly keeping hate. Higher defense and vit will help most with the first, but it seems like provoke and flash shed hate on the HNMs much faster than on normal monsters (e.g. our paladin can keep hate from a 1600 damage MB when exping on aura statues, but if a BLM did half that on aspidochelone, the PLD would have a hell of a time getting it back). Our main tanks are putting their merit points into +enmity right now.
We were looking to see some other folks who not only speak english, but also have access to koenig and AF2 equipment for tanks. This rules most general message boards out, so I came here to ask. What do you guys choose to wear when tanking, and why?
--S