You know you've been a pld too long when...Follow

I hate it when I out heal the whm.

Any pld who does this should stop playing.

Sorry if there are any repeats...I didn't read them all, but here goes

You know you've been a pld too long when...

-You carry around STR and Attack gear, just incase you MIGHT be tanking "Too Well"..and want to equip it, to try and do more damage..(and show your such a good tank you dont even need +vit gear to tank)

-You get so excited about using Holy Circle when your party actually fights an undead mob that you can hardly stand it.

-You regard DRK's as your mortal enemies, and cant even imagine playing a class with such low def.

-At level one you ran around town, saw a paladin in AF armor, knew NOTHING about the job, but decided then you would play a paladin.

-When you levelled your warrior to 30 to unlock paladin, the whole time you played the job as if you are a paladin, and refuse to use anythng bt sword and shield.

-You dare a thief to try and SATA+Viper bite onto someone else in party, to try and test how much hate you hold.

-You get SO excited and impatient about your next armor upgrade (which you are probably already carrying on you)..That you inpatiently check the level req of it to see if it somehow mysteriously dropped.

-You feel naked without your shield equipped.

Really though guys, does it get any better? As a paladin you:

-Have the coolest armor in the game
-Have the highest def in the game
-Have the highest vit in the game
-Your entire purpose in a party is to piss things off
-You can heal yourself
-Your MP automatically regenerates

It's good to be a paladin.....

...you find yourself telling stories that start like "back when I was your level..."

...a member of your LS asks you what level Shield Mastery and Auto-Refresh are and you have to look it up.

...you have a feeling of nostalgia when you wear the Eisen set for Promy missions.

-stop using silent oil in Ro'Maeve to get to the hall of the gods.

totally guilty, silent oil {too weak}.. just don't do it while wearing your vermy cloak.. then them weapons actually hurt.

You know you've been a pld too long when:

-- You take your AF out of storage just to sport it arownd town for a bit.

-- You continulously search for "Flash" on your macro set while playing other jobs.

-- You feel naked without MP pool.

-- You go in to hate wars with other PLD in your alliance party just for fun..... and exclaim "Cover FTW".

-You're XPing, puller gets an add.
Out of pure instict you voke the claimed mob, and smack your "Flash" macro on the add to get a little hate on it while it's slept.

Of course you're XPing your Ninja at the time and all you succeed in doing is casting Utsusemi on top of 4 fresh shadows.

>< Not that this happened to me last night or anything.

-Your LS gets a new member while you are LFG on another job, you switch to PLD so they know. ^-^

- when you MB flash completely on accident

When you think using Berserk is viable when you're taking "So little damage".

Anytime you go farming with a friend you work your ass off to practice holding hate for when you hit the 70's...at level 34

Volunteer to tank anything,even your friend's af3...at level 45

Challenge Ninjas to hate contests that are 5-10 levels above you.

After competing for a while you ask the Ninja if he would like you to use Defender and hold off voking "so it's fair."

Realize that your 59 PLD takes less than half the damage your 69 DRG does,on the same Easy Prey your DRG was fighting.

-When you loathe the very essence of Ninjas
-When you level a job like warrior and have a NIN tank you provoke every now and then to see how well they can hold hate as comapred to you.
-You see a lower level pld with a NIN sub trying to DD in qufim you slap them and tell them they're a tank, not a DD then have them run home crying.

You know you've been a Paladin too long when...

The phrase "I soloed Vrtra with my level 1 Paladin" actually sounds like it might be fun to try out.

You REALLY know you've been a Paladin too long when...

You actually do that.

-you volunteer to tank when you're leveling another job
-you know the pun when you flash a mob
-you take screen shots with a drk just to compare
-you take check all other pld's armor to see what they're wearing
-you get pissed off when you're doing something that caps your 50+ abilities
-you feel guilty if the puller brings a train and you're not tanking all of them
-you memorized the difference between your af armor vs your relick armor.
-you drool at the thought a dishing out 1200-1500 per hit when you get Excalibur

true story, i volunteered to tank as a lv 10 COR in the dunes. i had to pull as well. the pt set up is like this SMN, BLM, WHM, RDM, BLU, COR. i rolled for hate. =)

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Kujata
69pld

When you don't notice Benediction going off until the end of the fight when the whm faints from relief.

I didn't read all of them so I hope no one's said these

-forget that you are supposed to share hate with the nin (pre-37) and build up so much that his vokes are obsolete.

-make sure wars know not to voke until you die.

-go back and do mission 2-3 get cursed and still tank the dragon w/o dying until the very end.

-feel obsolete tanking as a war/mnk.

-seriously believe nin caused chivalry to die.

-never even think of playing as drk, rng, or blm because its too easy to take and keep hate with those jobs.

Edit: forgot one.

-quickly cast blink on yourself, cure III on the tank, and benediction and run the mob to the zone to save the party as a whm.

Edited, Jun 27th 2006 at 8:33am EDT by deadlypudding

Edited, Jun 27th 2006 at 8:35am EDT by deadlypudding

* You constantly update your gear with HQ, or different gear.
* When soloing as RDM you sub PLD.
* You can't decide which gear is best.
* You PLD/WHM doing Raises in dunes & qufim while searchable in AF, or doing PL's.
* Last but not least, you have a RNG same lvl but would rather farm as PLD/THF.

... You hold hate off of 2x Rampage and Asuran Fists on a VT Imp.

... The BLM standing at the back of the party comments on how impressive your shield block rate is (and you're in a burn party).

... You have to sedate yourself in order to get NIN to 37.

... You no longer care where the SATA goes. It doesn't make a difference.

... You rail on a low-level PLD for having crappy gear.

... You merit Shield Bash in anticipation of getting Aegis.

... You can fit in a Cure IV while fighting a MNK mob.

... That between parries, blocks, and intimidation, you take no damage against the average Doomed mobs in the 'Mire.

... You use Holy Circle regularly... at level 75.

... and for that matter, you know exactly how much hate Holy Circle gives.

... You wear AF2 just for the looks.

... You go talk to the PLD flag quest NPC every so often, just for kicks.

... You die a little inside when you see a PLD exping with a subjob other than /WAR.

... You see how often you block with your shield while playing WHM.

... and for that matter, you tank as WHM.

... While bound, you've (Shield Bash)ed Kirin, just to see if you could interrupt Stone V.

... You have taken a Stone V without dying.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2006 at 1:44am EDT by Celvantes

lol. i was leveling my WHM yestarday and noticed that too :)

I made a post before and thought of a couple more.

-know the difference in looks between Valor AF and Gallant AF because you've spent so much time staring at 75PLDs wearing it.

- exping in Cape Terrigan/Valley Of Sorrows somewhere in the 55-60 level range, and you have to go, so you try to find a rep and only /sea all PLD or begrudingly /sea all WAR because doing a /sea all NIN feels like a sin. (While looking for a rep I said to my pt a few times "Still looking for a rep, no PLD's or WARs lfp." One of them said "Try looking for a NIN." I said nothing to this and went on until I found a new PLD. I told my pt I finally had a rep and the person asked what job the rep was. I said it was a PLD, I've never seen a more annoyed person, lol. Serves him right though, thinking I would honestly invite a NIN to replace me as a tank...)

- you fall asleep in your pt or go afk and your pt SATA's on you anyway. (True story, lol. I have a mini-static with two of my friends, one of which a BLU/THF, and when I go afk he likes to CA(chain affinity)SATA Death scissors on me.)

- don't care about getting agro and run through dangerous places, sometimes right past mobs that will kill you. (One of my friends makes fun of me for it. Says I get agro '100-miles away.')

-run around Eldieme for fun. (I spent three days straight in Eldieme last week. Asked my friend if I was weird for enjoying my time in Eldieme, she replied 'A tad.')

I'll post more when I think of them.

Edited, Jul 5th 2006 at 9:15pm EDT by SilverBlackstar

You know you've been a PLD too long when...

-You thought to yourself, "man, Iron Musketeer Armor looks badass! I can't wait to wear that!" and then remember you don't know how to make gil yet...

Charybdis actually has fairly slow attack rounds; he just attacks a whole lot of times in one round to make it seem like he has quick attacks. (Also, he's not a MNK mob either; or else he would have guard and counterattacks.) As long as you start casting your Cure as soon as you see his first swing in a round, you will get the spell off every time. ^_^

Fitting in Cures (mostly the slower higher level ones) inbetween the attacks of actual high level MNK mobs is impossible; their delay has just gotten too low by that point to possibly squeeze a Cure 3/4 in there, due to all the Martial Arts traits they have by 75. That's not to say that you will never be able to fire a Cure off against them, sometimes you won't be interrupted; but getting a completely clean cast off reliably is impossible against such mobs ;D

Mandy's in yhator(sp w/e) >.< I had so much trouble w/ these cause my WHM was a pansy and the THF didn't want to rick a pt wipe thinkin I couldn't tank gobs an 31 sry when your only gettin hit for 15-25 dmg from a mandy its sa waste of MP to cure and I kept loosin hate cause regen was retickin my HP faster than I was takin dmg cure was more than I ever needed ^^

- flip out when the white mage is cure happy and doesnt leave you space to cure yourself to hold aggro

lol i cant believe i missed that one i go crazy on mages that cure me if my before i get into 100 or 200 hp

You know you've been a paladin too long when:

-You leave a party to help your LS do a coffer key quest, the party leader replaces you with a Ninja, only to find out from a friend nearby that they wiped on the 1st mob they took. Then you go back to raise everyone, but wait to raise the ninja last. :)

-You exp in the ToA area for the first time and complain that the mobs aren't hitting you hard enough. So you switch to att gear and still take minimal damage...

-The Eldieme Necropolis is your playground

-You level red mage in Qufim, and sub/war just so you can backup the tank. And do a better job. Even if the other tank is a paladin! O.o

-You jump at any /shout in Jeuno from people looking to do BCNM60 "Celery", even if you don't have enough seals, just to you can tank an NM ghost. (And giggle knowing that everyone else says only a Ninja can tank Shredded Sampson.)

-You spend the first 10 minutes online every day searching through the AH to see if any new armor has been released for paladin while you were asleep.

-You finish the last part of your AF quests, put on the Gallant surcoat for the first time, and a tear comes to your eye, because now you LOOK like a Paladin should!

-You keep every shield and sword you will ever need for 2-3 dragon fights, Promys, and BCNM 20, 30, 40, 50, & 60's

-You almost wish you could delevel back to 1 so you can do Paladin all over again, then create a new character just for that reason!

Both have applied to me, haha. Nice entries there, Zisaa. :)