Tanking w/paladin in abyssea.. how?Follow

So yeah I know for a lot of basic seal nms this is beyond a breeze. But in some cases i'm just wondering how?

Its not just nin, dnc, thf etc are more efficient tanks, but particularly when it comes to nms with added effect anything--paladin seems to get rocked.

I tried tanking azdaja and its en-doom, en-petrify just pretty much rocked me. Also nms with enspells, while it can be done 134+ added damage with the chance to get followed up by a tp move or criticals are nothing to sneeze at. (Here's looking at you vnm 2 garuda) While I wiped to that nm and that was more a fluke (I never planned on tanking, but nin dc'd midfight)
its making me wonder how exactly i'm going to handle the tier nm's.

For gamayun I had ascending, apoc and rr atmas.. bad mistake as whm got magic aggro'd by surveyor and died and I ran out of mp, but I thought 100 wind resist might stop a possible 1 shot. I think i'll just do my last 2 abyssite quests for the hp/mp abyssites instead to guarantee a 1 shot is impossible on these particular nms. (Maybe it is, I have limited experience tanking them) anyway any thoughts? Atm I have full +1/+2feet/twilight set and badelaire +2. What I want to know are your thoughts on plds effectiveness as I thought nin was just better at maintaining hate--not the better overall tank for certain mobs.

Edited, Oct 12th 2011 12:07am by Thelastremainingintime

Edited, Oct 12th 2011 4:52pm by Thelastremainingintime

Was a useless rant, please ignore it.

Edited, Oct 13th 2011 3:30pm by TheKhory

Did you really just say PLD is the inferior tank to any DD outside Abyssea? Cause that's adorable.

Well of course; if you want a PLD to tank, your DDs can't be going all-out, else they're going to be tanking instead. This is how the game has always worked since the beginning of time.

While I won't disagree that the enmity system needs work, I don't see how DDs playing smart instead of just trying to zerg everything they fight is becoming less feasible. If DD tanks work you don't bring a PLD in the first place; if they die too much, you bring a PLD and use strategy, same as it's always been.

Again, this is simply a result of people refusing to use strategy and treating everything like it's Abyssea. It's like everyone forgot that Trick Attack exists, or that you can actually double the amount of damage you can deal within the hate cap by using Enmity- gear. There's even an item that hastens hate decay when taking damage; how many people actually use it?

Like I said, the system is in need of an overhaul, absolutely. That doesn't change the fact that there are plenty of options available to manage enmity as is, and that the majority of the playerbase has either forgotten about them or never heard of them in the first place.