PLD/RDM ..my thoughts

[Exsol]

yes, before you start screaming about pld/war being better i have some interesting thigs
1)can cast phalanx and stone skin, making the pld insane with def
2) doesnt have taunt but you have refresh (i think...maybe too high lv spell for the cap) so you can kinda keep the hate with heals :sweat:
3) i wish pld had there own taunt

[Maxim]

Refresh costs 40 MP and it takes a while to cast even with the RDM's Fast Cast ability. If you try casting it in-between the monster's attacks it will most likely get canceled unless you are lucky enough to dodge or parry/shield it every time you cast. Aquaveil hardly seems to help reduce the casting failure rate either. Stoneskin takes even longer to cast and it will wear off very quickly when getting hit for lots of damage from totetote monsters.

I PTed with a Taru PLD (he was the leader) who used CureIII as a way to keep hate. It wouldn't have been awful if there was a Bard in a party, and back then Refresh wasn't even in the game so by the end of battle he used all his MP meaning recovery took about five minutes. Recovery probably would have been three minutes if there was a BRD but that's still a pretty long time. The only good thing that came out of it was that the WAR couldn't get the monster off the PLD even if he used Taunt.

The PLD's tactic was pretty simple: DRK pulls and lets the monster hit her until her HP dropped to red. Then the PLD casted CureIII a few times so that the monster would face him and attack him. After that he would let his HP drop to yellow and use CureIII and repeat until he used all his MP or the monster died. The leader told the WHM not to do anything until he ran out of MP. Obviously his MP ran out quickly and healing after battle was anything but short.

Slowest party ever.