A passable Paladin Guide Reborn (FFXIV) 

Succeeding in a boss fight when the rest of the team is on the floor in a dungeon almost solely because of clemency is a sheer amount of serotonin I can't begin to describe

I already shared some points at the end of the video, but I'm probably not nuking this again unless something else is really out of whack. The only thing that I did find funny is that I had 2 friends who both play paladin watch my original video and we all had the wrong idea about certain abilities. Otherwise this video is almost identical to what it was before. It's still my responsibility to make things as accurate as possible and on that front, I failed. So if you are curious, or watched the previous version, here are the patch notes. Version 1.1 Hotfix: 4:26 - reworded buffs to not imply you always double weave every single rotation 7:03 - reworded gauge generation 7:26 - Fixed How Divine Veil Works 8:17 - Fixed Passage of Arms 12:16 - shield bash is not completely useless 17:09 - Rewording explanation for ranged first 19:23 - Fixing Hallowed Ground Plus Cover 22:18 - fixing timings for buffs Version 1.2 Not in video: 6:45 - Sheltron and blocking will behave differently as you level. 9:07 - I use the phase "go to 50%" I should have said "goes up by 50%" A simple mistake but with vastly different meanings.

"It's how you use your mitigation to satisfy the content that matters" You sir, are a poet.

How the hell is the guy with the shield less of a tank, and the guys with big two hand weapons less of a damage dealer then the other?

9:10 Intervention is another skill that's worded in a weird way. "Additional Effect: Increases damage reduction by another 50% of the effect of Rampart or Sentinel if either are active" Which, to my understanding (and information that The Balance also corroborates) this means that you get 50% of the mitigation of Rampart (so an extra 10%) or 50% the mitigation of Sentinel (an additional 15%). If you have both Rampart and Sentinel active you get a total of 35% mitigation max (the 10% from Intervention, 10% from Rampart, and 15% from Sentinel.)

I just realized how much PLD potential has with optimization by watching this and comparing it to my knowledge of the job. There’s so much more to talk about compared to other jobs with regards to optimization. Arguably the most easy to learn, and the most difficult to be the best at

Chair: "Shield bash will never be used at level 80" FF14: *Laughs in Leviathan Unreal*

A quick note on the passage of arms. The blocking part of it falls off immediately, the party mitigation lasts longer. About 5 seconds after the channel stops. So it's absolutely worth weaving into your rotation whenever big damage is about to hit the party... cause most of the time the mitigation will absolutely last long enough.

Absolutely humiliating my party at high level dungeons after they’ve died by asking if they want me to wipe, or if I should just finish it.

I might add that Paladin has the most complicated rotation out of all the tanks because the cooldown timers on so many of PLD's abilities are just... weird.

This is awesome. Super helpful. I love Paladin because the number of times I've come in clutch with a cover on a sprout or becoming a healer when a fight goes south is actually higher than you'd think. I've found people often dont notice that you just covered them to save their life but ill definitely still be proud of myself for it. Also, passage of arms looks fucking sick. Can't wait to see what the next expansion brings, hope we get more of the signature supportive abilities that come in handy in a pinch, those are why I play Paladin. When the team thinks we should give up and restart I pull out the clemencys and tell them to keep up the DPS because god damn it we still got this!

On the note about your editor's note on making mistakes and/or fixing them: When are you getting a Patreon so we can laugh at your mistakes whilst financially support you making said mistakes?

Oddly enough, lore-wise, Dark knights are more so the typical paladins and paladins are more like soldiers

The mansplaining, step-on-me daddy energy of this video is incredible. 10/10 would recommend.

8th umbral calamity.

Finaly a tank guide that tells you what skills to use. Great stuff!

Thank you so much for these guides! They're extremely helpful!

So nobody's going to read this, but I wanted to add one small optimization with the damage rotation. Once you're past the opener and you're back into your melee phase, it's better to use two Atonements after Royal Authority and then pop Fight or Flight right before Goring Blade, then use your third Atonement afterward, and then do the same for the next Royal Authority/Goring Blade set before FoF wears off (splitting up the third Atonement until after Goring Blade again). What this does is enable you to get four Atonements in FoF instead of just getting a Riot Blade under it. This only adds 62.5 potency per minute, but it's literally a free damage increase. It gets a bit wonky if you lose uptime, though, but Paladin's just kind of that way generally.

in terms of off-tanking, pld does seem to have the most team-support abilities, between cover, intervention, divine veil, and passage of arms. (clemency too but thats half points) gunbreaker comes in second with aurora, and heart of light, stone, and corundum. dark knight is in third with TBN, dark missionary, and oblation. warrior is fourth with nascent flash and shake it off. of course, all tanks have reprisal to reduce enemy damage, interject to prevent certain casts, and stuns to prevent minor enemies from attacking or moving.

Being a Balmung degenerate myself I got a chuckle out of the Quicksand joke

its commandable that u correct errors in guides.. even thogh they will bring u whay less views than a completly new video! respect and much apriciated as a sprout.

i'm just getting back after a 2 and a half yr brake and im a day 1 and beta player so this is really helping me recap and learn all the damn changes

What happened? No one seems to know, everyone's memory is foggy

Good guy Chair, making great content and correcting mistakes

BABE WAKE UP NEW MISSHAPEN CHAIR VIDEO (AGAIN)

2 Things people generally don't know about Veil, it is generally stronger than shake if applied to a non tank. why? because Veil is based on the Paladin's HP while Shake is based on the HP of the person receiving the Shake, so on a non tank veil is a stronger shield (assuming everyone is roughly the same ilvl). another thing SCH's fairy can proc veil with its' passive heal embrace

I was in the ARR beta, way back when. I started as a Pally, back when it was impossible to get, none the less hold, aggro. Every BLM hated us because they could cast only once every ten seconds, or they pulled aggro. Flash was interwoven with....everything. Every other action had to be a flash, or you lost aggro. Let a single party member hit anything OTHER than your target, and they pulled aggro. Sure, they improved our aggro management, but Flash was always there. I stepped away from the game shortly before Shadowbringers came out, and am only now returning. I have no freakin' idea how to play my job. They re-worked things so substantially (and Flash is gone, dammit) that I could not even reload my hotbars because everything was different. Yours is the BEST PALADIN GUIDE available right now, and I've looked at tons of them, including those with Google sheets and microsecond timing graphics with enough time dilation in them that you'd swear you're looking at EVE Online during a mega-war. The crap makes zero sense. But yours, my good man, explains exactly what's going on and does so in a way that an average WOW-exile can understand it. You rock my small, little world.

I really wish cover had a shorter cooldown cause "take damage meant for your teammate" is exactly the kind of thing I play tank to do.

Guide still holds up pretty well. Sucks that its a pain to update videos like these. but used this to get back into pally after a long break appreciate it chair

Your content reminds me of Sseth. Good shit

Great guide, thanks!

I'm a final fantasy XI vet and career PLD tank coming over to 14. I mostly played in the 75cap era, but I resubscribe every couple years to check in with Vana'diel try out the new endgame stuff, regear, etc. I finally decided that I needed to move on and join 14 after trying it out and realizing it has much of the same magic and feel of XI, and I want to get the new tanking system down, so I really appreciate videos like this. Maybe it would be smarter to start a new game with an "easier" role like dps or something (I know dps still requires skill, but you don't kill the whole party if you mess up usually), but there are few gaming experiences quite as thrilling as being the wall standing between the mobs and other real life players and knowing that if you play right and your backup has your back, you can't die no matter how hard the godmonsterthing tries. Subbed and upvoted. If you see this message, I did have a couple questions though. With the AOE spinny moves, are they typically only used on trash, or do some higher priority targets have adds that require them being worked into your rotation? If so, is there an optimal time to drop them in or it is just situationally "Oh crap, adds, spinny spinny time." Secondly, I get the CONCEPT of a rotation, having played some WoW and GW2 and stuff, it's just the most optimized way to bring all your abilities to use - but is there no room for variance? Do situations come up in the game where you have to break the rotation? Not anywhere near endgame yet, but I'm hoping there are surprises in battle to look forward to, and not just a rinse and repeat.

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Commenting for reasons , feeding a beast sounded kinda neat. Good stuff

Now I can like one video twice, nice.

I have made it to level 70 only really know what half of my shit does, this really helped

nice rework, solid Cover guide, 10/10

What is neat about Divine Veil with SCH, embrace is considered a spell so fairy can trigger it XD

sadge my shield bash info for palace didnt make it into the remake but kudos for taking time to improve the guide etc!

Well ether I like watching your videos

Great video

God dammit bahamut did it again

For blocking mitigation, it's not always 20%, afaik it goes from 10% to 20% depending of your shield in 5.x. Also, you're not really talking about passive blocking without sheltron, but it's hard to find resources about rate calculation for 5.x on this, but it's meaningful for big packs of monsters in dungeon, for endgame dungeon PLD have statistically around 6% always-on mitigation (but not meaningful for bosses, not enough hits obviously). Also, cover was really good before they removed the mitigation effect on it. Good guide btw, thanks for the content and the keep going.

I played WHM in shisui and the paladin healed my teammates through every mechanic. I think I only healed them like 3 times.

leveling brute to unlock saint Buddha: someone called me?

The only time I can remember really using shield bash is in Haukke Manor. If you don't have another melee class for stuns or they just don't know what they're doing, then it can be useful to deal with 2 Succubi using their AoE fear thing. But other than that I'm not sure.

PLD was my first experience with tanking but I'm a damned dirty ape warrior at heart lol. After this though, I might play around with it again 😬

Paladin has to be my favourite Tank of the bunch. I feel like some of its party wide tools are a bit overhyped at times tho, but they're still useful. On a side note, Passage of Arms' 15% mitigation buff actually lasts an invisible 5s, not a server tick. Server ticks are involved tho when you don't interrupt it, as the 5s invisible timer is reset every server tick when the wings are out. Another correction is intervention doesn't go to 50% with either rampart of sentinel, it's just awful tooltip writing because the localisation team hates Paladin. The actual effect is 50% of either rampart or Sentinel, so 10% and 15% respectively, added on top of the 10%; so either 20% or 25%, or 35% with both on, as both effects can be stacked together on intervention, so it's an either or situation.

Friend introduced me to this channel when we were talking how being a mentor is basically the Obama giving himself the medal meme. Video about hierarchy something. It's like i'm watching a very irritated baby of casually explained and sam O'Nella, most of that irritation probably because of recording footage at buttfuck 4:30AM 4:25 fucking love it. Looking forward to the karaoke.

John update pog :^)

A little tip, during aoe you will always do more damage with a non requiescat holy circle than a FoF buffed prominence combo, as long as you keep your mp high enough for your requiescat you're good.

13:15 You're better off pulling with provoke, so you can immediately AOE the mobs without waiting for the GCD cooldown. Also shield bash has some use if you get queued into low level dungeons. It lets you stun mobs one after another, reducing damage a decent amount. Can help for big pulls with rando healers or if you're leveling the class and aren't high iL yet. Definitely useless at 80 though. I didn't use it at all in E8S when doing it as PLD.

Even if you over pull as a pld shield bash stun can seriously increase your survivability for at least a short while. Its also longer then low blow or holy. Can be useful with under geared player to haste most 4 dungeon trash pulls. not recommend as the first thing you go to especially if you have a whm since they should be holying anyways but if it looks bad it can make the difference between a wipe and a rough clear.

bruh, good vid

Commenting because the sarcastic catgirl in the video told me to Awesome content btw

Guessing that server balmung and the things they do with their swords

If you need help with reviewing a monk guide I can help. Even though only 10 ppl play them

does circle of scorn not get affected by fight or flight?

I used the like button, what was the other request?

once upon a time i ran temple of the fist as a black mage, and our healer and other dps died. that is the only time i saw clemency used, because our paladin essentially played both tank and healer while I did the dps lol

PLD or DRK... Can't decide :( back from year break and I use to main DRK.. Can't decide if I'm lazy and want to go DRK since it's 80 or finish my pally that's 73 lol

Playing a Paladin now as my first class, so thought I better watch how to actually play it.

Clemency is nice. Against the Spectral Berserker in Hero's Gauntlet our healer went down very quick. I think the boss was at 80%. And I was able to pop Clemency enough to get us through the fight. 👍 If I had brought Dark Knight instead we would have wiped, most likely.

Needs an update video on Paladin.

10:27 I lost it. Bravo hahaha

I remember killing the first boss in the twining as a pld when our healer died and all i did was heal and mp regain, fun time

So do you ever cast spells outside of Requiescat?

You made a mistake with Intervention. Intervention only adds half of the cooldown you currently have on you and passes it onto your party member. So if you have Rampart on, Intervention will be 20% and then 35% for Rampart and Sheltron.

Hallowed Ground clutched 2 bosses while the group all wiped except me, best feeling in the world!

'Video man explains cover' 'Me remembering a video I saw of a Paladin in infinite tornado hell because he covered someone in "The Limitless Blue" who obliviously stood in the tornado, thus launching him higher and higher into the air' Yeah Cover has a few weaknesses.

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I use provoke to get mobs attention from afar and to aggro that one mob that I cannot see and is far away

Great video man! I'm going to be that FF nerd though lol. Shield Bash and Cover are signature abilities paladin has in most every FF game they are in. That's probably why we have them and will always have them. 😆 I love it.

is he talking about balmung in the beginning lmao?

Paladin is the squishiest of all the tanks now?!

Bro i can hear the frustration in this version

The chair said I am helping

There is only one tank that solos and that's PLD. Best invuln in the game, always meta, best tank aesthetic.

My goal is to clear a raid with only Paladins. Paladin Tanks, Paladin DPS and Paladin Heals.

0:52 I've never seen the Quicksand so empty...

Just a heads-up; this video isn't in your class guide playlist

Bruh you still got Intervention wrong. It doesn't go to 50% DR if you have Rampart or Sentinel active; it gains 50% of the DR of either of those effects. So, for example, if you have Rampart active and pop Intervention on someone, their total DR is 20%. If you have Sentinel active their DR becomes 25% total. Though tbh for a 6 second DR buff, it really should just jump to 50% DR if you have Rampart or Sentinel already active, because then it might be about as good as TBN and thus actually worth using.

ok ok I’ll subscribe

Oh this guide is ancient, you don't even have rage of halone, I didn't know how changed Paladin is

> only tank class that uses a shield > squishys tank class what

picked up the class the hour end walker was revealed... lvl62 now but i love it's vibe

Wait but literally yesterday I covered a tank buster for another paladin while they were stunned and couldn't use Hallowed Ground themselves, and I used Hallowed Ground on myself and neither of us took damage

21:10 me yesterday when both healers died halfway thru against normal eden titan

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Disshapen Chair where is my Reworked Endwalker Paladin video?!!! GET BACK TO WORK BOY!

Mr "Reupload" Chair

Warrior guide for memes soon? Or you dont like it...? Idk, funny video xD

Gibe SMN guide pls

I was mildly amused.

Passage of Arms/Arms Up last 5 seconds after its cancelled, at least for your party

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks (as a main tank) every tank feels exactly the same with very minor differences. I wish SE would do something about that

Alright who got the 25 kill streak this time

1:58 EW be like "Hold that thought"

10:30 I fucking died. lol

I've been saying "requesting a cat" rather than Requiescat.