Mithra Warrior viable? (what combinations of advanced jobs?)

[Omena]

Originally posted by aimeekitty
Thanks for all the help you guys, I really appreciate it!

I have to say, it's silly, but I really love how Summoners and Dragoons look...

but neither of those could be a tank really at all could they? (I mean Dragoon/WAR... would that be "ok" as a tank?)

is Dragoon really "that bad" ? I've been reading up on it and it seems that a lot of people are unhappy with the class (as if maybe it's gimped or something?)

I totally see what you mean about choosing what is most fun for me instead of what the party means though. I'll try lvling up my WAR for a while and hopefully by the time it comes to choose my next path I'll have a better idea of whether I'd be "perfectly happy tanking" or whether I'd really be much more happy as a damage dealer (or perhaps a more well-rounded damage dealer that can tank a bit too?)

Dragoon/war will be a decent tank up to about L30. After that you'll be sacrificing so much defense for attack power that your defense will be about as high as a mage's. Even if you tried to pump defense as a dragoon, you wouldn't do very well because dragoons can't wear the heaviest armor types. And yes, dragoon is generally weaker than other melee damage dealers. It is sad but true.

Summoner on the other hand is a pure caster job with paper armor and low hp.

Warrior is really the only one who can both tank and deal damage, but you need two sets of equipment. One for dealing damage and one for tanking.

From melee you can only start with warrior, thief or monk. The rest are advanced classes, so you need to have one job of at least L30 before you can unlock them. If you start as warrior, you'll probably know what you want to be when you reach L30. You can either continue playing warrior or pick an advanced job for either tanking or damage dealing. Also note that tanks are considered more valuable than damage dealers, because there are just SO many damage dealers out there.

[Omena]

Oh damn!
Stupid board playing tricks on me again! >.<

[Cali]

DRG's def isn't that bad... they wear armors, monks wear clothes, so they are around DRK's def to be exact. Anyway, the reason why DRG is bad to most people(EDIT: Just my opinion, and I have no problem with DRG in party, I just try to analysis why people hate DRG):

-no good WS until penta thrust
-wyvern doesn't help a lot
-damage dealing, DRK has last resort and soul eater + berserk(if subbed war); RNG has their natural ranged power; MNK hits twice; SAM has TP advantage; THF has Sneak attack+Trick Attack; DRG has.. jump, and high jump which does little damage
-can't tank

then again, just play DRG if you like it, I will play DRG one day, because I like the AF~

[navpops]

SMN are awesome tank

carby power!!!!!

[aimeekitty]

thanks everyone! maybe I'll just try a few things after I reach lvl 30?

[ibroyles]

Can you make me a sig Chase? That drawing was AWESOME.

[Ariesknight]

Hey, I was in the same position. I am an Elvaan hwoever and I coldn't decide my role. So I tried, DRK, SAM, DRG, MNK and even RNG. Then I tried the flip side, PLD, and took it to 21, then it's appeal wore off. And so i found myself wanting to do both roles. So now I am WAR/NIN and loving it. There is not a better job out there in the front lines than the versatile WAR!
@Level 45 we get Aggressor, all Damage Dealers suffer from accuracy troubles always wanting to boost Acc and with this ability we can boost it further than any other melee job! That is an 'uber' ability!