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

When the BLM tell u to get infront of him and have cover ready bcus he is going to use elemntal seal + ancient magic... and u stand there wondering if has used it yet, bcus u do not seem to loose any hate

I like it when I am pt'ing as something else with war subbed and I can voke faster then the person that is supposed to be tanking

...when this happens to you.

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And I'm still having fun as Paladin!

Edited, Wed Aug 17 02:15:59 2005 by SmartDrv

- Your heroes are the Star Onion Brigade.

- When you sleep, you wake up to yourself hitting an invisible provoke button. ( I play PS2, so I'm constantly trying to hit the shoulder button.... )

- When a stupid Melee job decides to stand in front of you when the Thief is SATAing... and they take hate and you scream in anger in RL. Grr....

Grah!

Since this was bumped, I'll add another...

- When after you switch jobs, sell your pld gear, and have been playing your new job for half a year people still ask you when you're coming back to tank for them.

--You switch to leveling BLM because you're sick of not being able to watch TV (go to the bathroom/get a drink/blink more than twice/breathe) without finding six dead bodies on your screen.

/jealous

Some new ones that have come up for me recently:

- Your maxed out +Enmity merits get you in trouble with pretty much any other job you play.

- You are leveling White Mage and your extra HP merits put you at a higher HP than your tank.

- When buying new gear for a DD job, you wonder what it would do for your Spinning Slash/Retribution damage.

- You find yourself bragging about how many times you have hit level 74 due to HNMs, Dynamis, and CoP.

- You are pushing your Woodworking to 100 just so you can sport your own signed Kinkobo, Terra's Staff, Pluto's Staff, and Rosenbogen +1.

Edit: Speeling.

Edited, Thu Dec 8 11:06:00 2005 by Sarlos

- While leveling THF in the dunes you are forced to sub /MNK to quit voking.

- Then you feel bad when the other 3 melees with 'voke die to a pug and you can't pull hate off the mages with 'Perfect Dodge.'

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

- People suggest duo-tanking and you just laugh.
- You have a macro made to warn thfs that you WILL be voking if they haven't gotten SATA off in 5 seconds.
- You have different gear macro'd in to all your ja's. (Adaman head piece macro'd for Koenig during voke and any ja's for instance).
- Your boyfriend is a war/nin and says to just let him get hit at the end of the battle because he has shadows and you just... can't.
- You have leveled plds of all races just to see which is better.
- Are never satisfied with the way you do your job.
- People invite you over other plds b/c your reputation proceeds you, even though you're the worst race for the job and onry rank two at level 60 =P (Guilty...Had my taru character leveled and rank 5 at the time, was too lazy to do the rank missions over again).
- You see a taru get hit and try to cover him even though you're not a pld and he's not in your party.
- Bad plds make you do this ---> >:(
- You're leveling blm and your tank is getting hit hard... You start nuking harder to pull hate so he won't die.
- You know how to get to every zone in every area.
- You /salute every paladin you see and say "{Paladin} {Power}"
- You get /tells from younger plds asking advice on gear and/or help with AF etc.
- You've become so bitter about the job you try to level something else... but every day you log back in as pld.
- You still have the best pld gear for every level cap.
- You go afk and leave the doors open and the sound all the way up so you can hear <call>s in case of emergencies.
- You spend 80k on one stack of food because it is the best... ***** fairy server -.-)

Anyway, that's all I can think of. =X
-Dani

On a variation of this, recently leveling THF through the Dunes as THF/MNK with Hand-to-Hand (Sneak Attack + Combo is amazing), I will often use Boost specifically to try to pull hate if the tank's Provoke is down and the mob strays towards the mages. Somtimes the mob turns to me strictly from my damage and I will sometimes instinctively Boost to keep the mob on me, or perhaps to test the tank a little...

Lol, that's so me. I get ****** off when the pl (if the pt has one) pulls hate from me, or Cure 3s me XD

My most recent, I hadn't partied with a thief in 20 levels, level 36 or so, so we go on aboutthe whole sata setup at the beginning and whatnot. I have a mnk/war as the first voke, well we all know how SATA works. So I agree, tell them i'll wait for SATA to voke, and what happens? Robber crab to camp, my provoke macro goes off and i engage. RDM, laughs as does my whm who i've been static with for 20 or so levels. Me, ****, how about we do that SATA thing next fight >.> haha.

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

-Every time you have a NIN or WAR/NIN in the same party as you, you make it your first priority to take all the hate from him/her.
-You level all your jobs to 30 or so, except for NIN, because you think they're worthless.
-You feel utterly ashamed if you ever lose the hate: even if it's from benediction.
-You feel a surge of satisfaction everytime the THF ends a skillchain on SATA Viper Bite, and the mob doesn't even glance at him.
-At levels 20-40, you're baffled whenever you don't get an invite within the first 30 minutes of seeking.
-You find yourself searching for undead NMs that you can slaughter.
-You buy Iron Musketeer's armor at level 30.
-You carry your AF sword around for 15 levels, even though you don't need it until 40.
-You sub WHM in order to PL someone, and try to Provoke it when they call for help... Several times in a row, but to no avail.
-You want to quit a party because you're not the main tank... Even as a WAR.
-You have a list of all the equipment you're going to buy for the next 20 levels.
-You find yourself oddly drawn to this forum, even if it applies to you solely because you have a PLD main.
-You're excited that you've been a PLD for far too long.

But that last one's not a bad thing, at all. Paladin Pride!