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I think you underestimate the existence of magical damage. It was a fairly widespread affair at lv75 and who knows what Seekers will bring.

In my understanding, SE doesn't use the phrase "tank" correctly- or maybe someone picked it up and that's how everyone has been using it. To me, it sounds like RUN will be more of a frontline support job that improves magical defense. Rather than taking all of the damage head on, it can buff your current tank and DDs. The quote even mentions being able to cast the magic shield abilities on other players. The greatsword and the presence of enhancing magic such as aquaveil and stoneskin suggests some durability and a reason to be up front, but it's much more difficult to cast such long spells while being hit without a shield.

That or it will become the ultimate PLD subjob.


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Only reason why I didn't mention /SAM is that we don't know how the new enmity changes will balance things out in terms of holding hate. The way they worded the enmity fix, dealing direct damage via WS and Auto Attacks won't build enmity as fast as it does now so the use of /WAR for provoke bundled with Flash will probably work out better in the long run. (Even though the enmity gained through provoke decays to 0 by the time recast is up) We just need to see how well RUN can hold hate as a standalone job spamming Enchantment Runes


Edited, Feb 25th 2013 11:37am by ImmortalAlchemist