plds have obtained a new level of insanity.

[cycerath2]

This seems to be an increasing trend with Paladins. all these new job traits SE has added has caused an interesting effect.

Now, with MOST jobs, you level it to 75, merit it, and stay within the usual traditional notions of what the job can and cannot do. Tanks don't DD, melee doesn't nuke, etc etc. If you want to try something outside your normal role in a party, level a different job. Some people lose their minds and try anyway, with varying degrees of success.

Some jobs, as a collective class, basically go Insane and go outside their boundaries, because it turns out they CAN.

Beastmaster was first, and I suspect it was due to that ancient idiocy of the original Brady Games guide that said having a Beastmaster in your party would gimp your experience.

Party: Blarg! We don't want you in our party! Brady said it would fuxx0r our XP! XP per hour! Gibber froth!

Beastmaster: Well, that sucks... hmmm, I wonder if I could get any XP on my own by charming these EM mobs here, and using them to fight those T mobs there...

And Beastmaster has never looked back, now the de-facto solo job, and the one to whom the 'normal' rules don't apply.

Next up was Redmage. Used to be Redmage subbed WHM or BLM, and NOTHING ELSE, and if you did, you were a n00b. But one day one Redmag tried subbing Ninja...

Redmage: Hmmm, this is neat! I've got Shadows AND Phalanx!... Hmmmm... I've got this Seal of Genbu collecting dust in my inventory... I wonder for a larf how long I'd last?

And yet another job goes insane.

And now Paladin. We have auto-refresh, rapid TP gain through shield blocks, magic damage mitigation, lower spell interrupt rates (Due to shield blocks), natural enhancing skill (To make use of mage subs), high defense, high weapon skill, our own Convert-like ability (Chivalry), a Debuff blocking ability (Fealty), etc.

Paladin: Hmmm... I wonder if I subbed Redmage or Ninja if I could beat an Avatar Prime solo?

So, congrats fellow Paladins. We have officially, as a class, gone Insane. Now we can get together with the Redmages and Beastmasters and smile at the other jobs and say;

"Uh... yeah... actually, we don't really need you guys anymore."

And then SE will nerf us.

I think that's just freaking awsome!

[lizhellsing]

lol yeah it is

[Rovec]

I prefered being a tank myself

[cycerath2]

Tanking is fun of course; but what's more fun is making your job more flexible and exploring new ways to do things, Soloing on my /rdm is really fun ^^ I enjoy it alot and is great for NMs, /nin is awsome too, you can join Burn parties and get more exp then as /war. /brd was just something I found and had it leveled already, but it's awsome to see DD doing 1k+ damage and hate still stay on me (plus all I need on imps are silena, amnesia has little effect on my hate keeping). /war is O.K. but after playing as it for so many levels its fun to see what other combos work =) and what your "limits" are as a job.

[Goero]

interesting. Solo'd a Prime Avatar you say... any idea what his gear was like?

[cycerath2]

Yesterday I decided to try to solo an avatar and I chose Titan. I went as PLD/NIN because my RDM is lvl 1.

My gear really wasn't anything special.

Head: Optical Hat
Body: Sipahi Jawshan (can't afford haub or scorp harness)
Gloves: Sipahi Dastanas
Feet: Gallant leggings (AF boots)
Legs: Sipahi Zerehs
Back: Amemet Mantle
Weapon: Durandal
Shield: Koenig Shield
Neck: Parade Gorget and Shield Torque (I swapped in shield torque whenever my shadows fell)
Ring 1: Jelly Ring (I know I shouldn't have used this but I didn't realise I had it on until after the fight)
Ring 2: Unyielding Ring
Earrings: Dodge Earrings

Medicines I had were 5 Yagudo Drinks and 3 Hi-Potions.

When I went in I buffed up and used a meat mithkabob so I could kill him faster, and used a Reraise Gorget.

The fight went really smooth. There were a few close calls now and then because of his Mountain Buster and Stone IV. I had 0 Earth resist to so that didn't help any.

Whenever shadows were taken down to fast and I had to wait for recast timers I used Sentinel and swapped in some of my normal tanking gear. I saved Rampart for his Earthen Fury and any of his other deadly Blood Pacts. With Rampart up his Earthen Fury only did about 100 damage. I made sure I drank yagudo drinks the second they wore off so I wouldn't run out of mp. Other than that it was a pretty straight forward fight.

The main reason I wanted to try to solo him is just because my entire LS thought I wouldn't be able to do it. They all told me that only a RDM/NIN could solo and avatar. So Before I entered my LS jokingly placed bets on me or Titan. Only 1 person in my ls picked me.

The fight was basically just hacking away slowly at him. I basically just had to survive long enough to whittle him down. As you can probably imagine, the fight took a very long time. 26 minutes, 36 seconds to be exact.

And it was Firesday when I fought him.

that's everything the guys said =)

[Rovec]

Goero's thought processes are as followed "Woah, woah...if I can solo a Prime Avatar...I can get 10k a week! And...and there are like 6 Avatars! 60k a week!" :3

[cycerath2]

Don't forget about Fenrir and Diablos.

I'd be fun to solo them though, get all your whispers for Fenrir "bubble"

The best part about pld is our survivability, subbing /rdm reduces the already reduced damage and give more mp as well as fastcast ;D
subbing /nin gives us the potential to be DDers and gives you shadows, when shadows go down you have your natural defense and mp to get your hp back up.