Awesome guide man! Very easy to understand even for someone who never played with the job, and it's the first time I see someone actually spend some time explaining how to properly use the job before you reach level cap. I hope this turns into a series for all jobs, 'cause that would be extremely helpful.
Thank you! I started playing a few months ago and have been looking for a really good Paladin video. I levelled BLM and AST and I'm at 67 on my Paladin as of today.
So, I actually only started the game a week ago because of your videos. Wasn't sure if I wanted to start it, but I chose to, you seemed to have a lot of fun playing the game! So, after starting I decided to go for PLD and my friend helped me do a lot of the shit for it and then this video came out and I've had an even easier time actually learning about it. I'm not very far in, I'm iLv113, Lv52, but I'm slowly getting there. I'll be subscribing because of this :P
I have to say Melon Queen... first, welcome to the game, I'm really flattered that you picked this game up on my recommendation and way to go on your progress, that's epic and awesome. Second, your name is awesome, and I love it. :) Hope you enjoy your time in game, thanks for being a tank in the game and let us know if you have any questions. :D
I haven't touched Paladin in ages and only starting my 60-70 levelling now, so this guide is perfect. Very straight forward and helpful, thanks for making it :D
I am ilevel 355 lvl 70 PLD and have never used materia...I was so lost unsure what to use so I just kept all of them. Thanks to you I will be melding my gear tonight! Thanks a bunch for your video.
Your explanation on this is amazing dude. I’ve just started playing PLD and found it a little boring at first but now after this video I can’t wait to play end game content with PLD. Thanks heaps dude, definitely getting a sub
I’ve just started playing ffxiv kicking off as a paladin. This is a great informative guide. Definitely going to improve my ability to tank. Thank you for the wonderful tips, sir!
been a tank since the game first dropped but you my friend have an excellent understanding of paladin keep up the great work and..... your videos are awesome
Time for a redo Brian:) Please Please please.. /Bow.... I am a 2 month old paly tank...I am only level 45 because I am leveling all jobs together.. You are my reasoning and my style for everything paly and FF14...Well your channel...Love you both, Thanks for all you have taught me thus far.
Tysm for posting! Aside from a few pronunciation issues (which might genuinely confuse some newer players who have never heard these things pronounced this way before), this was an awesome video. Here are rough phonetic pronunciations of the words in question: What you called "Matera" several times in the video is pronounced -- Muh-TEER-ee-uh. What you called "Requisite" several times in video is pronounced -- Ray-QUEE-es-COT. Thanks again!
Thank you for this video. Actually watching it two times just to take notes because you put out a wealth of information. Again, thank you very much. :D
Great guide, just hit 60 on my Paladin (only started FF XIV 3 weeks ago) and good to know I been doing it right. Always play Tanks in MMO's and could not come to like the Marauder, but Paladin is a ton of fun.
Well welcome to FFXIV and wow, great job on making it to 60 thus far.. I have been enjoying PLD a lot in Stormblood. :) I hope you continue to enjoy the game, and thanks for watching! :D
Power to ya bud, Play with my wife when we get online, after work, kids and everything else real life demands we do prior to our downtime. Didn't know we was in a race to get to cap, but we are enjoying ourselves with our toons, and my wife is my Whitemage in my pocket. Like the instant queue's with her :)
Thanks for bringing me back to earth........ glad your busier than I (Hard achievement as well?), need a ruler to measure anything else? The 3 week comment was a pun at myself for being an FF XIV Newbie actually, Good luck to you bud.... Not going to life measure any further and ruin WtG's Channel with flaming each other any further.
+DoktorSo thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed. Yes I agree then understanding the Tank, Healer, and DD responsibilities can be very helpful :)
Nice work man! Love this guide! Please do a Dark knight guide, im moving from dps to tanking and this is the sort of stuff i need to be watching! Keep up the good work
Gonna watch later the video but had to stop by and say this thumbnail is hilarious, made me and my gf bust out laughing! Love it! More funny Brian thumbnails plz
Like always thorough, detailed, clean and always informative. Thank you again for the video and for helping me become a better Paladin. Take Care Madison L
One thing to add, if you're clever about it you can use the RoH combo, FB-->Riot Blade-->fight or flight (wait til when the GCD is close to recharge)-->then use Goring Blade. Two Royal Authorities, and if you did it right you can snapshot another Goring blade Combo and Requiescat before starting your magic phase. not really essential per se, but if you're ever in a bind where you need to do more damage, that's a good place to start. Tenacity is good, but only if you can get it over 2000 points, where it becomes a 24-hour reprisal...which is insane but nigh impossible to achieve at this point. Better to start with Direct hit until you can achieve over 2000 crit where the potential dps outdoes DH. Determination is a good follow up and SS is kinda your only dump stat. Glad you touched on only using Total Eclipse for groups over 3. Not a lot of folks realize that. good video overall.
This patch it's recommended to have Direct hit only. Tenacity gives a lower overall boost in defense. Content as of now damage wise now is pretty forgiving. If you go for best in slot, you will have enough tenacity for the content.
came in handy...mostly the cool downs. i have been a healer,whm lv70, found it easy but most healers are really try to keep up with me when i tank.. good info
If anyone has a link to the audio version on how to say it, that’s what I need. I’m extremely dyslexic so trying to read it phonetically unfortunately can have the opposite effect :S
One thing you mentioned a little but I really would stress to newer tanks: using cooldowns, in dungeons: use them for pulls (don't just save for the boss). There are many tanks out there that wall to wall and don't pop a single cooldown...
+Skatedudeguy great point, and I agree, hopefully that's underscored by the cooldown recast because I agree, I feel new players often sit on their cooldowns :(
Skatedudeguy It’s easy to overlook them when doing rotations. Especially for people like me who don’t main as a tank. I macro most of my cooldowns to my abilities to make sure they proc when available. There’s a few that I don’t macro like Convalescence. But the ones I don’t have long cool downs and are important for boss battles.
I wanted to note here (not sure if you've noticed or not but I've done a couple experiments and proved it) that while yes vitality is important but strength also REDUCES the dmg you take as a Paladin
Apart from the tenacity part, a pretty good guide overall! You only want to have about 1000 tenacity as a soft cap ( a bit like when SMN needed a soft cap for spell speed) which requires no melds, and then legit everything is melded with Direct hit apart from the accs that have the 1st grade 6 strength, then the overmelds direct hit :)
+ImProBowlesyy HD thanks for the feedback, I love direct hit as a star, but chose to highlight tenacity as it relates to strength, I'll do a deeper dive into end game raising stars in a follow up Advanced Paladin guide or I'll blend the three tanks together. :) but really good note :)
Wel welcome to the Workforce (something we say around here) glad you found us and are enjoying this video and the game. Let us know if you have any questions :)
Thanks for this video. I'm a level 65 paladin right now but I'm happy I watched this video so I could figure out Holy spirit. I had no idea where it went in the rotation at all. I guess I just need to wait till level 68 to fully realize what I need. Also, this video made me realize something! Are y'all ever going to do a materia video? That is definitely one part of the game I don't fully understand.
This video really help me out. Surprisingly, parties have been kicking me out of Roulettes cause I was being such a bad Paladin 😂 So maybe with this video I can learn to be better. Thanks! However, it would have been nice to see what these abilities do in battle as an example after explaining. I hope one day you recreate this video uo to date.
Nice, Guide! I love PLD, I have been very hesitant of tanking the lvl 70 Dungeons ( I main BLM) But I think I'm ready. I did get pulled into a Lakshmi run as OT and ended up MT. that was interesting and a new experience lol I know I'm a meh Tank but I try lol and I will have to remember the healing rotation that shield seems helpful for sure.
Don't be afraid to let your party know that you're still "newish" to the Tank for the content, and that should help set the expectation at the start of the content rater then if you run into trouble. :)
This helped out a bit, been trying to figure out proper rotations for harder content. Also a good combo for heavy damage events in raids i would suggest divine Veil with Passage of Arms, the mitigation seems to stack (for now at least).
Holy s***. That was a great video. I'm about to start getting back into the game after a couple years, and this video totally brought me up to speed with tanking with my Paladin when I quit I tried Dark Knight and wasn't really liking it. Just liked And subscribed. looking forward to seeing what other informative videos you have to get me back in the game.😎
That's an excellent point that I will cover in a more advanced guide, this is an intro guide (101), but your point is valid and I'll be sure to do that in the follow up 201 :)
+Drew Wogen in truth, being that I struggle with words so much, it kept me off of TH-cam for so long... one day I might release a behind the scenes video on how I make my vids and prep, and script, and repeat... what I need is an app that I put in a word and it reads it back to me so I can practice... my issue is I've been saying things one way for so long it's hard to break the habit. I might do a post on this at some point, as I'm sure people might find how I used to say Chocobo hilarious :)
One of the problems I have with the Final Fantasy series' handling of combat is their inclusion of instant death moves. How does the game handle those types of moves and other status effects?
Also, i think your math is a little bit screwed on one of the moves at least. Total eclipse means an attack of 110 potency to all enemies nearby, not increasing multiplicitively as more enemies crowd around you. If that were the case, it would be stated in the move description, and would be completely wiping out groups of enemies in basically no time. The potency formula is as such. Over three seconds (1 server tick), all auto attacks do 100 potency's worth of damage. If the weapon's delay is, say, 2.25sec (75% of 3.00), the auto attacks will be 75 potency hits per swing. If you weapon's delay is over 3sec, your auto attack swings will hit for more than 100 potency per swing. It scales linearly. This means that a 300 potency attack deals damage equivalent to 9 seconds of auto attacks for any given class. This is not a constant value between classes (3sec of WAR AAs =/= 3sec of MNK AAs). It is, however completely consistent within a given class. A Warrior's Heavy Swing, for example, deals 150 potency of damage. The actual damage of the ability should be half the damage of an Inner Beast, which has a potency of 300. This can be tested easily with or without a parser, bearing in mind that you should account for + or - 5% damage variance of all direct damage skills, spells, and attacks, or the numbers will be off.
There are so much abilities. If you can explain, are abilites not noted on here not worth using? It gets REAL hard keeping track of what to use so I wanna only focus on what us good
I'm level 56 and I use spirits within after the circle of scorn during openers. Is spirit within not worth using for openings or anytime during battle? I didn't see you mention it in your guide, unless I zoned out when you did. Just want to know.
I would add that for 50+ one flash and circle of scorn is more than enough, and not having that second flash taking up a gcd is nice and you can get into damaging be it with aoe or hate rotation to damage and gain hate. And for total eclipse make sure someone has goad or tactician as your tp will drain fast. When it comes to clemency, i wouldnt use it unless your healer dies in a 4 man dungeon, as in higher-end content your requiescat+holy spirit is your dps peak. For hallowed ground, if there is a fight with certain mechanica like stormsplitter in susano ex, its good to save it. Using stormsplitter as an example most paladins, myself included, tend to pop hallowed for the first stormsplitter so you don't need to swap, and in turn the dps of both tanks wont suffer during the swap, especially if the other tank is a warrior or dark knight. When it comes to role actions, 100% of the time you should have awareness and rampart. For fights with tank swaps, provoke and shirk, and provoke on all bosses just in case the main tank dies when you are off tanking. For dungeons i tend to take convalescence to help with large pulls, and anticipation. For instances that require a lot of mitigation, reprisal is very helpful. The cross role stun isnt needed as a paladin in most cases as you have a gcd stun, but can be helpful if a situation arises where you need a stun but dont want to sacrifice a gcd. Ultimatum is useless on all three tanks (except for less confident warriors sometimes), but for paladin dont bother. For interject, ive never taken it, not really necessary at least for me, never had issues without it. Also quickly about requiescat timing, if you dont have to move and can just spam holy spirit, 5 holy spirits will take you to the end of the requiescat timer and will reduce your mp so you camt use another. If it comes to a situation where requiescat is up, but you have to move for mechanics, try and get as many holy spirits as you can in with requiescat, but then also keep going when the buff is down intil youve done five as it is still 400 potency each. For cover, it can help in some untankable situations like the second boss of qarn normal, but in most cases if you lose aggro you should be getting it back in about a second. I think ive only ever used cover once (apart from using it cos the tether is cool) and it didnt realy help.
I very rarely have to use my savage blade/RoH combo when im tanking and have no problem keeping aggro, generally with trials, raids or 70 dungeons i start out with shield lob, CoS and then a flash or two. From there my rotation is just my goring blade/ royal authority combo plus the occasional flash, obviously spirits within, shield swipe and CoS when theyre off cooldown as well. Am i tanking wrong? I haven't had any issues and just cleared alpha v4 a couple days ago
They give you a stone after doing the jobs for the coliseum. If your level 37 I’m sure you’ve done that job by now equip the paladin stone. Stones can be inserted when you equip your characters gear. It’s on the right side the last square
+bert boba unless you plan to pick up a job jump or story skip potion you won't be able to start out as a DRK. That being said, I'd vote for that if you like to tank. Otherwise pick up the Monk or Dragoon. I'm not a monk, but they have a lot of things going for them, and DRG needs some work in the later part of the game IMO. :)
Generally bosses cant be stunned, and generally only regular enemies can be. Ones that have long cast time abilities can be stunned, or enemies that have line / cone aoes can be stunned. Most regular mobs can be stunned regardless. However any stun can only be applied three times per mob before a stun effect wont work anymore.
Also you never mentioned shield bash. In my rotations I use it all the time. It has a limit to 3 uses per mob. You want to use it all the time as it reduces the damage you take. (Target 1) Fast Blade. (Target 2) Savage Blade, (Target 3) Rage of halone - Flash - , Shield bash Target 3, Shield bash Target 1, Circle of Scorn - Fight or Flight - Spirits Within. This combo works because you stun last two targets of a pull and you buff Spirits Within with full damage because of stunned enemies not aaaaattacking you. If you have a good healer that initial damage you take would be fully healed. Thing is I play with no HUD on screen for about 4 years so I developed my own special way to play. This way I rarely have to use cds at all because enemies are already stunned.
+Marky SoStrong I like low blow over shield bash and have them macroed together because I don't like how shield bash is on the global cooldown. Being that not everything is stunable it is more a fight by fight recommendation then anything else :)
I use the virtual mouse to drag the icons onto the top hotbar. I have those steps laid out in my controller guides playlist. I have three videos showing off all the cool things you can do with the controller. :)
We have quite a few videos (unsure how up to date anything on dragoon is) but don’t plan to update any more until the expansion at the end of next month. Thanks!
Here is my controller guide - th-cam.com/video/gK-hiX7Gm5k/w-d-xo.html I guess I never finished the 101 guide for the job... man, it's been a busy year... but I'll work to make sure we have something up on the channel in Shadowbringers.
Waiting for that Red Mage Controller guide, i having some problems with keeping flow and everyrthing in tact. On my Samurai for example it Just like im the one with the job afer days of playing it.
When starting you can only pick between PLD and WAR... aka (Gladiator, and Marauder)... What type of role are you most interested? Do you like doing more damage, and have a larger life pool? (if so pick WAR/MRD) Or do you like to have better DEF, and ability to protect others? (if so pick PLD/GLD) My personal preference has been PLD, but with an update to WAR with the last patch, I'm trying it out again. :)
I like to play it safe and kinda easy and slowly at first. Never was into Dungeons tho at all. :p Judging by your comment i guess PLD is the better Starter choice then?
I've played all tanks up to 70, done recent savage content and started as a WAR because PLD was veeeery boring and different back then, but you should start with a PLD, it teaches you to use your cooldowns, you're a bit more open to stancedance and you get both of them very close to each other, and eventually you start getting fun tools to dps with, which is extremely important. WAR is a risk/reward class and doesnt have much utility to others until late ingame. Playing PLD forces you to learn these concepts and it will end up being easier for you to apply these things to not just the other 2 tanks, but to all classes in general. Thats just my opinion though, go with whatever you like!
I just started as a gladiator and I know you probably have already picked it up or changed your mind but the game is pretty forgiving at first and there's a training system for each class that teaches you the mechanics. There's also a lot of nice people who can help you out because some stuff the game does not tell you. I haven't played a mmo in years and I'm finding ffxiv to be very user friendly. I did my first dungeon as a tank and it was super stressful but also fun!
Hello ! Was watching your guide as I level paladin up. I am only confused about 1 thing. Do I first use Holy Spirit and then Requiescat, or other way around? Sorry!! Thank you for this great guide- I never would've guessed Strength materia is important and other details. ♥
I believe that Requisite adds a damage buff to casting, thus you'd want to use that first. But it's been a while since I looked. So just check the skill to verify. :)
That's awesome. :) Tenacity in this video isn't telling people that is what they should meld (exclusivity), but that it's a tank specific stat that increases defense and attack. There is debate in the community about it, and when it's beneficial too, but beyond that as the game stands right now, especially for Savage/Ex content DH is a clear stand out winner, even though we've been told that Tenacity will get better with time, we'll have to wait and see on that. :)
I would say tenacity isnt as worth it as of now, unless you are going for world first. Its better to go direct hit or crit hit. Also cover especially in raid and extreme trial content is best used on the other tank if you are off tanking. If you are main then its ok for the healer but these days we pld are usually off tanks anymore.
Hey Corey, and awesome. Glad I was able to reply so fast, some days it's a bit crazy around here. As for SAM, yes, I'm working on that now. :) Just hit 70 last week, need more time for the job to really know it. As far as Direct Hit... I love it. It's great, and it just depends on what you're trying to do. So if you like it spec for it. Those numbers always look big and beautiful. :)
for whatever reason, i always seemed to have more trouble keeping aggro with a paladin, compared to my drk. i never got my paladin to level 50 tho. only around 30 or so. would like to play a paladin some though.
Awesome guide man! Very easy to understand even for someone who never played with the job, and it's the first time I see someone actually spend some time explaining how to properly use the job before you reach level cap. I hope this turns into a series for all jobs, 'cause that would be extremely helpful.
Thanks! This means a lot... I hope to turn this into a series, I'm very glad everyone is enjoying it so much. :)
As someone who has been a healer main that is now trying to tank, this has helped so much. Thank you!
Excellente video. Been Pala tanking for years, and it's good to see an updated guide. Always good to get a refresher. :)
+Catpainter15 I always end up learning a thing or two from the comments as well :)
Thank you! I started playing a few months ago and have been looking for a really good Paladin video. I levelled BLM and AST and I'm at 67 on my Paladin as of today.
+B3tt33Whit3 congrats on level 67!!! :)
So, I actually only started the game a week ago because of your videos. Wasn't sure if I wanted to start it, but I chose to, you seemed to have a lot of fun playing the game! So, after starting I decided to go for PLD and my friend helped me do a lot of the shit for it and then this video came out and I've had an even easier time actually learning about it.
I'm not very far in, I'm iLv113, Lv52, but I'm slowly getting there.
I'll be subscribing because of this :P
I have to say Melon Queen... first, welcome to the game, I'm really flattered that you picked this game up on my recommendation and way to go on your progress, that's epic and awesome. Second, your name is awesome, and I love it. :)
Hope you enjoy your time in game, thanks for being a tank in the game and let us know if you have any questions. :D
Thank you very much, followed this video after boosting a pala as I wanted a rest from dps and its helped me massively.
Very happy to hear that Stephan, and I'm glad you enjoyed :)
Great job. Very helpful for a Paladin who hasn't played since 2.3 and is coming back!
Looking forward to the other job videos.
+Gold Jacobson welcome back! :) I'm glad you enjoyed this video :)
I haven't touched Paladin in ages and only starting my 60-70 levelling now, so this guide is perfect. Very straight forward and helpful, thanks for making it :D
This is super helpful to me, as I plan on picking up a tank class after I finish Monk and White Mage. Thanks!
Awesome to hear. :)
Thank you for explaining your rotation while showing the proper skills to use on screen! I wish most dps builds would do the same!
I am ilevel 355 lvl 70 PLD and have never used materia...I was so lost unsure what to use so I just kept all of them. Thanks to you I will be melding my gear tonight! Thanks a bunch for your video.
Your explanation on this is amazing dude. I’ve just started playing PLD and found it a little boring at first but now after this video I can’t wait to play end game content with PLD. Thanks heaps dude, definitely getting a sub
I’ve just started playing ffxiv kicking off as a paladin. This is a great informative guide. Definitely going to improve my ability to tank. Thank you for the wonderful tips, sir!
Thank you! This is fantastic! Level 20 in GLA and really don't want to let my team down :)
Awesome Morgan, hope you continue to enjoy the game and congrats on level 20 :)
been a tank since the game first dropped but you my friend have an excellent understanding of paladin keep up the great work and..... your videos are awesome
Timing couldn't be better I'm new to the game and chose to be a paladin
+Voyex it must be fate! I wish you the best and hope you find this useful :)
Paladin on Goblin here. Thank you for the guide. Very nice and learned a lot. Thank you!
+Schuyler Cavender that's fantastic to hear :)
Awesome video! I bought a level boost for Paladin, so this was super helpful.
Thanks and welcome to FFXIV I hope you enjoy your PLD. I'm really looking forward to its new gap closing ability in 5.0 :)
Time for a redo Brian:) Please Please please.. /Bow.... I am a 2 month old paly tank...I am only level 45 because I am leveling all jobs together.. You are my reasoning and my style for everything paly and FF14...Well your channel...Love you both, Thanks for all you have taught me thus far.
Fear not LiveLove Learn, it's on it's way :)
Tysm for posting! Aside from a few pronunciation issues (which might genuinely confuse some newer players who have never heard these things pronounced this way before), this was an awesome video. Here are rough phonetic pronunciations of the words in question:
What you called "Matera" several times in the video is pronounced -- Muh-TEER-ee-uh.
What you called "Requisite" several times in video is pronounced -- Ray-QUEE-es-COT.
Thanks again!
Just started playing Paladin and your guide is most useful!!! Thanks.
Thank you for this video. Actually watching it two times just to take notes because you put out a wealth of information. Again, thank you very much. :D
Thanks so much for the comment and compliment! :) I'm glad I was able to help in some way. :)
Great guide, just hit 60 on my Paladin (only started FF XIV 3 weeks ago) and good to know I been doing it right. Always play Tanks in MMO's and could not come to like the Marauder, but Paladin is a ton of fun.
Well welcome to FFXIV and wow, great job on making it to 60 thus far.. I have been enjoying PLD a lot in Stormblood. :) I hope you continue to enjoy the game, and thanks for watching! :D
Power to ya bud, Play with my wife when we get online, after work, kids and everything else real life demands we do prior to our downtime. Didn't know we was in a race to get to cap, but we are enjoying ourselves with our toons, and my wife is my Whitemage in my pocket. Like the instant queue's with her :)
Thanks for bringing me back to earth........ glad your busier than I (Hard achievement as well?), need a ruler to measure anything else? The 3 week comment was a pun at myself for being an FF XIV Newbie actually, Good luck to you bud.... Not going to life measure any further and ruin WtG's Channel with flaming each other any further.
Amazing guide, thank you so much!
As a main DD who is leveling PLD on the side this really comes in handy.
+DoktorSo thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed. Yes I agree then understanding the Tank, Healer, and DD responsibilities can be very helpful :)
Nice work man! Love this guide! Please do a Dark knight guide, im moving from dps to tanking and this is the sort of stuff i need to be watching! Keep up the good work
Will do, I'll see if I can't do that sooner, rather then later. :)
Excellent guide. I really am enjoying the videos you guys are producing.
+Ron wow, thanks Ron! That means a lot and thanks for being apart of the workforce! :)
Gonna watch later the video but had to stop by and say this thumbnail is hilarious, made me and my gf bust out laughing! Love it! More funny Brian thumbnails plz
+Old Man Graves thanks so much! We are trying to standardize our thumbnails as well as we move into year 2 of W2G :)
Thanks so much--I've been playing as DPS or crafting for 5 yrs. This has made me want to give tanking a try. Another avenue to explore!
Thanks for this. Helped a lot when I started PLD. :)
+seyahtan24 awesome, glad to hear it :) thanks for watching :)
Like always thorough, detailed, clean and always informative. Thank you again for the video and for helping me become a better Paladin. Take Care
Madison L
Wow, thanks Darryl (aka Madison... love that name by the way) :) Hope you have a great week, and thanks for watching, and the complement. :)
One thing to add, if you're clever about it you can use the RoH combo, FB-->Riot Blade-->fight or flight (wait til when the GCD is close to recharge)-->then use Goring Blade. Two Royal Authorities, and if you did it right you can snapshot another Goring blade Combo and Requiescat before starting your magic phase.
not really essential per se, but if you're ever in a bind where you need to do more damage, that's a good place to start.
Tenacity is good, but only if you can get it over 2000 points, where it becomes a 24-hour reprisal...which is insane but nigh impossible to achieve at this point.
Better to start with Direct hit until you can achieve over 2000 crit where the potential dps outdoes DH. Determination is a good follow up and SS is kinda your only dump stat.
Glad you touched on only using Total Eclipse for groups over 3. Not a lot of folks realize that.
good video overall.
This patch it's recommended to have Direct hit only. Tenacity gives a lower overall boost in defense. Content as of now damage wise now is pretty forgiving. If you go for best in slot, you will have enough tenacity for the content.
+Enigmatic Blade thanks for the feedback :)
Such a great break down and overview of the job. Thanks!!
Thanks Ronnie, :)
Thank you for this video. A good break down of what I was looking for.
Glad to help, and glad you enjoyed :D
Thanks for the information I'm still beginner with paladins but this video has a lot of help
That's awesome Saleh, glad this was a help. :)
Just start leveling my paladin, thanks for this very useful vid.
Thanks and thanks for watching. :D
May I ask you also play Paladin in PvP? I am starting to farm some PvP rewards now and not getting what Paladin should do in Frontline and Feast.
came in handy...mostly the cool downs. i have been a healer,whm lv70, found it easy but most healers are really try to keep up with me when i tank.. good info
Matera....... it's aluminium all over again! Lol
Yup... :S
lmao its pronounced mah-tier-ria
Muh-TEER-ee-ah
If anyone has a link to the audio version on how to say it, that’s what I need. I’m extremely dyslexic so trying to read it phonetically unfortunately can have the opposite effect :S
th-cam.com/video/m5SzBHXpWs0/w-d-xo.html
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One thing you mentioned a little but I really would stress to newer tanks: using cooldowns, in dungeons: use them for pulls (don't just save for the boss). There are many tanks out there that wall to wall and don't pop a single cooldown...
+Skatedudeguy great point, and I agree, hopefully that's underscored by the cooldown recast because I agree, I feel new players often sit on their cooldowns :(
Skatedudeguy It’s easy to overlook them when doing rotations. Especially for people like me who don’t main as a tank. I macro most of my cooldowns to my abilities to make sure they proc when available. There’s a few that I don’t macro like Convalescence. But the ones I don’t have long cool downs and are important for boss battles.
I wanted to note here (not sure if you've noticed or not but I've done a couple experiments and proved it) that while yes vitality is important but strength also REDUCES the dmg you take as a Paladin
Apart from the tenacity part, a pretty good guide overall! You only want to have about 1000 tenacity as a soft cap ( a bit like when SMN needed a soft cap for spell speed) which requires no melds, and then legit everything is melded with Direct hit apart from the accs that have the 1st grade 6 strength, then the overmelds direct hit :)
only if your ilvl is really low you need tenacity melds, i was ilvl 323 and 0 tenacity melds, managed Neo exdeath with ease
+ImProBowlesyy HD thanks for the feedback, I love direct hit as a star, but chose to highlight tenacity as it relates to strength, I'll do a deeper dive into end game raising stars in a follow up Advanced Paladin guide or I'll blend the three tanks together. :) but really good note :)
+MarcusBloomfield that's epic :)
Ahh yeah i suppose theyre different things :D and thanks Marcus lol, i do have tenacity but non of it is melds, currently i have about 1100
Hey, why did the party wipe on o8s?
They didn't have Muh Terra for Kefka
i am new to your channel and i got to say this is a cool guide for paladin i am currently working on my paladin and learning my rotations as well.
Wel welcome to the Workforce (something we say around here) glad you found us and are enjoying this video and the game. Let us know if you have any questions :)
Thanks for this video. I'm a level 65 paladin right now but I'm happy I watched this video so I could figure out Holy spirit. I had no idea where it went in the rotation at all. I guess I just need to wait till level 68 to fully realize what I need.
Also, this video made me realize something! Are y'all ever going to do a materia video? That is definitely one part of the game I don't fully understand.
Not a bad idea. With some of the adjustments to 4.1 materia, that might be a good time. :)
Thanks for the great guide Bri.
+- Nitsu - thanks so much! Really glad you liked it :)
This video really help me out.
Surprisingly, parties have been kicking me out of Roulettes cause I was being such a bad Paladin 😂 So maybe with this video I can learn to be better. Thanks! However, it would have been nice to see what these abilities do in battle as an example after explaining. I hope one day you recreate this video uo to date.
Started tanking in SB with pally and love it! Scholar mid HW and onward. Main summoner but swapping to rdm.
+joevoyles2005 how are you enjoying red mage? I'm looking forward to spending more time with it once I start working on my DPS jobs :)
absolute blast and best class design to me out of everything ive played it flows so smoothly.
Nice, Guide! I love PLD, I have been very hesitant of tanking the lvl 70 Dungeons ( I main BLM) But I think I'm ready. I did get pulled into a Lakshmi run as OT and ended up MT. that was interesting and a new experience lol
I know I'm a meh Tank but I try lol and I will have to remember the healing rotation that shield seems helpful for sure.
Don't be afraid to let your party know that you're still "newish" to the Tank for the content, and that should help set the expectation at the start of the content rater then if you run into trouble. :)
This helped out a bit, been trying to figure out proper rotations for harder content. Also a good combo for heavy damage events in raids i would suggest divine Veil with Passage of Arms, the mitigation seems to stack (for now at least).
Great vid, man. Thanks for that.
Thanks Roger, thanks for watching :)
Great video super helpful! I like the way you explain everything. Do you have a dark knight tanking guide? Or am I just not seeing it.
Great video, it should be titled a 101 video for beginners :)
It is, that's what 101 means. ;)
Dude. this guide is exactly what I needed. thank you. Yes, I subbed. :D
Holy s***. That was a great video.
I'm about to start getting back into the game after a couple years, and this video totally brought me up to speed with tanking with my Paladin when I quit I tried Dark Knight and wasn't really liking it.
Just liked And subscribed. looking forward to seeing what other informative videos you have to get me back in the game.😎
Awesome guide , do you have a guide for Drk and war on your channel?
+Deakstok DRK yes, but not like this, I'll be releasing a DRK 101 guide here in a week(ish) :)
very much appreciated for this guide
Thanks so much, and thanks for watching. :)
Please do Dark Knight when you get a chance. Great vids!
Sure thing! :)
You should had talked about blocking and parrying, specifically how much damage they reduce and what types of damage they work on.
That's an excellent point that I will cover in a more advanced guide, this is an intro guide (101), but your point is valid and I'll be sure to do that in the follow up 201 :)
Thanks for the vids, just started today and lvling a tank first, great info here. Do you have a macro vid?
+Jason Thirsk the controller layout should include a Macro section :) if it doesn’t I’ll update it :)
I love this guide, you guys always do a great job! But please pronounce materia correctly, I was cringing hard for the first few minutes.
+Drew Wogen I'll try and do better but no promises. Not because I don't want to, but because I'm dialectic and read words differently. :)
Work To Game its totally okay, I'm just too much of a dork, ignore me. You guys are great! Thanks for all the content!
+Drew Wogen in truth, being that I struggle with words so much, it kept me off of TH-cam for so long... one day I might release a behind the scenes video on how I make my vids and prep, and script, and repeat... what I need is an app that I put in a word and it reads it back to me so I can practice... my issue is I've been saying things one way for so long it's hard to break the habit. I might do a post on this at some point, as I'm sure people might find how I used to say Chocobo hilarious :)
Work To Game I look forward to it for sure :D
One of the problems I have with the Final Fantasy series' handling of combat is their inclusion of instant death moves. How does the game handle those types of moves and other status effects?
Great video. What about role actions?
I'll be putting together a tanking 101 guide, to talk about the cross role actions and concepts that are shared across all three tanks. :)
Thank you sooo much. Alot of help
+Devan Mackey you are very welcome :) thanks for watching :)
Also, i think your math is a little bit screwed on one of the moves at least. Total eclipse means an attack of 110 potency to all enemies nearby, not increasing multiplicitively as more enemies crowd around you. If that were the case, it would be stated in the move description, and would be completely wiping out groups of enemies in basically no time.
The potency formula is as such. Over three seconds (1 server tick), all auto attacks do 100 potency's worth of damage. If the weapon's delay is, say, 2.25sec (75% of 3.00), the auto attacks will be 75 potency hits per swing. If you weapon's delay is over 3sec, your auto attack swings will hit for more than 100 potency per swing. It scales linearly.
This means that a 300 potency attack deals damage equivalent to 9 seconds of auto attacks for any given class. This is not a constant value between classes (3sec of WAR AAs =/= 3sec of MNK AAs). It is, however completely consistent within a given class. A Warrior's Heavy Swing, for example, deals 150 potency of damage. The actual damage of the ability should be half the damage of an Inner Beast, which has a potency of 300.
This can be tested easily with or without a parser, bearing in mind that you should account for + or - 5% damage variance of all direct damage skills, spells, and attacks, or the numbers will be off.
Ok, thanks I’ll take a look to see how I was figuring this out :)
Good intro guide, though I don't remember seeing anything on the "intervention" skill that uses oath gauge.
I plan to dive more into those topics with a 201 guide at some point soon. :)
Good to go! Looking forward to it!
There are so much abilities. If you can explain, are abilites not noted on here not worth using? It gets REAL hard keeping track of what to use so I wanna only focus on what us good
Sweet vid! Thanks so much!
Thanks Tyler I’m glad I was able to help out :)
I'm level 56 and I use spirits within after the circle of scorn during openers. Is spirit within not worth using for openings or anytime during battle? I didn't see you mention it in your guide, unless I zoned out when you did. Just want to know.
+Byron Brownlee I think it's a great ability. But I was planning on covering weaving abilities in a later video :)
I think this will wind up being my tank of choice in FF14 as I always prefer classes that specialize in mitigation as a tank.
This was great, thanks so much
I would add that for 50+ one flash and circle of scorn is more than enough, and not having that second flash taking up a gcd is nice and you can get into damaging be it with aoe or hate rotation to damage and gain hate. And for total eclipse make sure someone has goad or tactician as your tp will drain fast. When it comes to clemency, i wouldnt use it unless your healer dies in a 4 man dungeon, as in higher-end content your requiescat+holy spirit is your dps peak. For hallowed ground, if there is a fight with certain mechanica like stormsplitter in susano ex, its good to save it. Using stormsplitter as an example most paladins, myself included, tend to pop hallowed for the first stormsplitter so you don't need to swap, and in turn the dps of both tanks wont suffer during the swap, especially if the other tank is a warrior or dark knight. When it comes to role actions, 100% of the time you should have awareness and rampart. For fights with tank swaps, provoke and shirk, and provoke on all bosses just in case the main tank dies when you are off tanking. For dungeons i tend to take convalescence to help with large pulls, and anticipation. For instances that require a lot of mitigation, reprisal is very helpful. The cross role stun isnt needed as a paladin in most cases as you have a gcd stun, but can be helpful if a situation arises where you need a stun but dont want to sacrifice a gcd. Ultimatum is useless on all three tanks (except for less confident warriors sometimes), but for paladin dont bother. For interject, ive never taken it, not really necessary at least for me, never had issues without it. Also quickly about requiescat timing, if you dont have to move and can just spam holy spirit, 5 holy spirits will take you to the end of the requiescat timer and will reduce your mp so you camt use another. If it comes to a situation where requiescat is up, but you have to move for mechanics, try and get as many holy spirits as you can in with requiescat, but then also keep going when the buff is down intil youve done five as it is still 400 potency each. For cover, it can help in some untankable situations like the second boss of qarn normal, but in most cases if you lose aggro you should be getting it back in about a second. I think ive only ever used cover once (apart from using it cos the tether is cool) and it didnt realy help.
I very rarely have to use my savage blade/RoH combo when im tanking and have no problem keeping aggro, generally with trials, raids or 70 dungeons i start out with shield lob, CoS and then a flash or two. From there my rotation is just my goring blade/ royal authority combo plus the occasional flash, obviously spirits within, shield swipe and CoS when theyre off cooldown as well. Am i tanking wrong? I haven't had any issues and just cleared alpha v4 a couple days ago
I finished to gladiator quest. I'm in level 37 and for some reason the paladin quest won't appear on my game. Any idea why?
Be sure to equip the stone they gave you for the job :)
They give you a stone after doing the jobs for the coliseum. If your level 37 I’m sure you’ve done that job by now equip the paladin stone. Stones can be inserted when you equip your characters gear. It’s on the right side the last square
I'm torn between Dark Knight,Monk or Dragoon as my main class when I start playing. Any help?
+bert boba unless you plan to pick up a job jump or story skip potion you won't be able to start out as a DRK. That being said, I'd vote for that if you like to tank. Otherwise pick up the Monk or Dragoon. I'm not a monk, but they have a lot of things going for them, and DRG needs some work in the later part of the game IMO. :)
When's that WAR guide coming out?
+Britton Johnson two weeks :)
Work To Game thanks! This video makes me kinda wanna start a PLD now haha.
Sorry, but I have the Gladiator at level 30 and Conjurer at level 15, yet I don't have the mission to become a paladin. What did I do wrong ???
You don't need conjurer anymore, but you'll need to make sure you do the gladiator quests (they happen ever 5 levels) from ul'dah
@@Work2Game I did ALL of them, but they don't unlock !!!
How do I know which bosses or enemies I can stun to stop abilities/spells? Just simple trial and error?
Yep :)
Generally bosses cant be stunned, and generally only regular enemies can be. Ones that have long cast time abilities can be stunned, or enemies that have line / cone aoes can be stunned. Most regular mobs can be stunned regardless. However any stun can only be applied three times per mob before a stun effect wont work anymore.
Enigmatic Blade thanks!
Further more Ten of 600 gives a 1% boost, as Direct Hit (200) gives a 1% boost. Dh outweighs Ten by a mile.
Neat. :)
I'm level 18 and I don't unlock the "shield lob" action
I think it might be apart of your level 15 class quest, just FYI :)
Also you never mentioned shield bash. In my rotations I use it all the time. It has a limit to 3 uses per mob. You want to use it all the time as it reduces the damage you take. (Target 1) Fast Blade. (Target 2) Savage Blade, (Target 3) Rage of halone - Flash - , Shield bash Target 3, Shield bash Target 1, Circle of Scorn - Fight or Flight - Spirits Within. This combo works because you stun last two targets of a pull and you buff Spirits Within with full damage because of stunned enemies not aaaaattacking you. If you have a good healer that initial damage you take would be fully healed. Thing is I play with no HUD on screen for about 4 years so I developed my own special way to play. This way I rarely have to use cds at all because enemies are already stunned.
+Enigmatic Blade good more, I planned to cover shield bash in my controller guide tomorrow :)
Is tenacity worth using over direct hit and crit? I main PLD and I wanna get the most out of my job
Right now Direct Hit is what is favored. :)
Anyone Know the song that plays in the background on this video?
Not off the top of my head, but I'd guess Tokyo machine is the artist... you can check them out at monstercat.com that's who we license through. :)
Thanks! i saw that in the comments, but thought the song sounded WAY too much like a Final Fantasy song not to be from the game.
Can yall update this video and your other tank videos. Alot of that's talked about has changed since endwalker.
You got it :)
@@Work2Game thanks. Your videos are really helpful. Helped me get a better handle on a bunch of jobs.
After I hit level 10 glad do I just go straight to pal?
Great video very informative
Do you not recommended low blow and shield bash? I like to use it to stop aoe's. Maybe it's not useful later on? I'm lvl 54
+Marky SoStrong I like low blow over shield bash and have them macroed together because I don't like how shield bash is on the global cooldown. Being that not everything is stunable it is more a fight by fight recommendation then anything else :)
I loved shield bash til like level 45 then I got annoyed with it helpful video thanks
How'd you get the top of your hot bar like that
I use the virtual mouse to drag the icons onto the top hotbar. I have those steps laid out in my controller guides playlist. I have three videos showing off all the cool things you can do with the controller. :)
yeah I found that video thank u for doing that because I really needed something to put more potion on my hotbar, thanks for replying too.
yeah I found that video thank u for doing that because I really needed something to put more potion on my hotbar, thanks for replying too.
Another great video.
Hello, any help with a video like this for Dragoon class pleasr
We have quite a few videos (unsure how up to date anything on dragoon is) but don’t plan to update any more until the expansion at the end of next month. Thanks!
@@Work2Game a link with the most recent one please if possible
Here is my controller guide - th-cam.com/video/gK-hiX7Gm5k/w-d-xo.html I guess I never finished the 101 guide for the job... man, it's been a busy year... but I'll work to make sure we have something up on the channel in Shadowbringers.
@@Work2Game thanks, really thank you, i all ready build me palladin after the video above, an o man, it's running so smooth
Waiting for that Red Mage Controller guide, i having some problems with keeping flow and everyrthing in tact. On my Samurai for example it Just like im the one with the job afer days of playing it.
+Miraak Dragornborn it might be a while, but it will happen soon :)
What Tank would you advice as a complete Starter?
Never played the Game but wanted to give it a try by checking your Tank Videos. =)
When starting you can only pick between PLD and WAR... aka (Gladiator, and Marauder)... What type of role are you most interested?
Do you like doing more damage, and have a larger life pool? (if so pick WAR/MRD)
Or do you like to have better DEF, and ability to protect others? (if so pick PLD/GLD)
My personal preference has been PLD, but with an update to WAR with the last patch, I'm trying it out again. :)
I like to play it safe and kinda easy and slowly at first.
Never was into Dungeons tho at all. :p
Judging by your comment i guess PLD is the better Starter choice then?
I've played all tanks up to 70, done recent savage content and started as a WAR because PLD was veeeery boring and different back then, but you should start with a PLD, it teaches you to use your cooldowns, you're a bit more open to stancedance and you get both of them very close to each other, and eventually you start getting fun tools to dps with, which is extremely important. WAR is a risk/reward class and doesnt have much utility to others until late ingame. Playing PLD forces you to learn these concepts and it will end up being easier for you to apply these things to not just the other 2 tanks, but to all classes in general. Thats just my opinion though, go with whatever you like!
I just started as a gladiator and I know you probably have already picked it up or changed your mind but the game is pretty forgiving at first and there's a training system for each class that teaches you the mechanics. There's also a lot of nice people who can help you out because some stuff the game does not tell you. I haven't played a mmo in years and I'm finding ffxiv to be very user friendly. I did my first dungeon as a tank and it was super stressful but also fun!
Hello ! Was watching your guide as I level paladin up.
I am only confused about 1 thing. Do I first use Holy Spirit and then Requiescat, or other way around? Sorry!!
Thank you for this great guide- I never would've guessed Strength materia is important and other details. ♥
I believe that Requisite adds a damage buff to casting, thus you'd want to use that first. But it's been a while since I looked. So just check the skill to verify. :)
Love it bro thank you for your help
Do you recommend using macros?
Full tenacity on left side is about 2.4% damage reduction, totally not worth it imo. I've been using direct hit for both mt and ot.
That's awesome. :) Tenacity in this video isn't telling people that is what they should meld (exclusivity), but that it's a tank specific stat that increases defense and attack. There is debate in the community about it, and when it's beneficial too, but beyond that as the game stands right now, especially for Savage/Ex content DH is a clear stand out winner, even though we've been told that Tenacity will get better with time, we'll have to wait and see on that. :)
I would say tenacity isnt as worth it as of now, unless you are going for world first. Its better to go direct hit or crit hit. Also cover especially in raid and extreme trial content is best used on the other tank if you are off tanking. If you are main then its ok for the healer but these days we pld are usually off tanks anymore.
is this guide still relevant for 4.3?
Pretty much, they haven't really touched paladin much since this was created, but I plan to update DRK real soon. :)
holy cow thanks for the reply so swiftly!!! I love your guys btw!!! any chance on a SAM guide in the future?
Another question... I'm reading a lot of forums online saying that you should meld direct hit... what is your opinion on dps stats for a tank?
Hey Corey, and awesome. Glad I was able to reply so fast, some days it's a bit crazy around here.
As for SAM, yes, I'm working on that now. :) Just hit 70 last week, need more time for the job to really know it.
As far as Direct Hit... I love it. It's great, and it just depends on what you're trying to do. So if you like it spec for it. Those numbers always look big and beautiful. :)
Good...goood...let the hate flow through you..it makes you strong.
for whatever reason, i always seemed to have more trouble keeping aggro with a paladin, compared to my drk. i never got my paladin to level 50 tho. only around 30 or so. would like to play a paladin some though.
7:50 Requisite?! No, Brian, NO! And it's mat-EER-EE-A, for god's sake!
Apologies... I try and fail hard sometimes with worlds:(
err... words.