When do PLD's really take off?

[Infest]

I'm currently a lvl 25 PLD in full chain and I'm still getting hit alot. I thought I would see a REALLY big difference when i switch from WAR to PLD but so far not really. Some times same lvl wars in my group can take damage better than me *confused*. Can any experienced players shed some light on this please...

[Otaku~gamer]

at 30 you'll get another defense bonus.. which is then more than a warrior has since their only one is at 10 (30 is their ATTK bonus). Even though u get hit like a warrior now you do indeed have the ability to heal yourself.

VIT items are your friend. Get as much as that as posible even if u have to sacrifice some other stats as well. Also eating food that increases your defense and vitality also helps. If u can't afford the fish mithrakabobs, go for the tortilla. They are 400-500 a stack of 12.. very cheap. It raises def by 1 and vit by 3 at the cost of -1 dex.. better than nothing imo.

Also if u don't have a bard with ballad or a RDM with refresh in your party you should suggest to NOT participate in the renkei (skill chain) process.. that way you can use your magic to help keep the "hate" on yourself.

Oh yeah.. if your healer isn't really good or at least decent.. consider yourself dead

[imac2much]

Hi Infest! My warrior teamed with a few days ago (Rugal)... I think we took similar damage but like the previous poster said, you did have the ability to heal yourself =)

I originally wanted to be PLD/WAR as well, such as yourself, but now... I'm not so sure. I chose Galka as my race because I've never been a 'big hulking race' in any MMORPG and I wanted to try something different... but it seems galka make poor PLD. =(

I don't want to be a PLD that teammates despise or dislike in later levels because I am not able to keep hate with heal-spamming... I know I can wear some MP boosting equipment, but either 1) that will make me sacrifice better equipment for the same general stats of an Elvan without any equipment, or 2) waste several spots in inventory so I can eqiupment-switch constantly (which will also cost much more money).

I've even gotten to the point where I want to reroll as an Elvan, but that would mean all the constant questing/missioning/leveling, etc would have been pointless. T_T

Ah well, I really don't know what to do now... don't know what job Galka can do well in. DRG is really nice, but so many of my friends are already going DRG, I don't want to be the same as them. I'm somewhat leaning toward DRK, but from what I've heard from people and read in forums, they don't deal as much damage as other melee (drg,sam, etc) until VERY high level, and of course they can't tank either.

BTW, does anyone know what job/subjob is good for Galka for solo-boss hunting or gil farming?

[Infest]

Sup Rugal !~~ Yea i was talking to a guy who played a pld in beta and he said their defense really takes off around lvl 40+. I still think you can go pali you will have soo much health. And you will proabbly ahve enought mp for heals.

[Avenger02]

Just A quick comment to Imac2much:

Galkan's do have their place in this game... As for jobs I would suggest maybe A samurai or a monk... But If you wanna still play paladin, I would at least try it with the galka anyway and get some of those 25hp to mp rings or something to help you cast some spells... who knows you might like it...

[imac2much]

Thanks for your comments guys. Infest, yeah, I guess as PLD gets more and more of those DEF up abilities and passives, they stand out even more from WAR... probably at lower levels it's just not that different, but then again your offense probably isn't much lower than WAR at low levels either =) You'll just get more specialized after a while.

About Galka PLD... I have read that most of them suck or just aren't effective, except a select few. I think I will make it my goal to be one of those few intelligent, effective and efficient Galka PLDs =) I'm thinking of using some RSE (hands and maybe feet) for quite some time to boost MP, and also try to get those +MP/-HP rings... If I wear that, I should have comparable MP to an Elvaan, with still more HP. Sure I may have a bit less defense than him (if the Elvaan is wearing better gloves and maybe phalanx rings), but thanks to my higher VIT and HP, I think we should both have nearly the same survivability.

I dunno, I'm just too lazy to reroll as another race And I like how my Galka looks, even though people think they're fat and ugly... I'm just big boned dammit!

Hmm.. I hope RSE isn't hard to get (I have no idea how to get them lol) >_<