Sentinel ResultsFollow

The short preliminary tests i did and another pld i spoke with did, we find that sentinel recudes damage 60-70%.

I took a 120 damage crit, and 60-70 damage normal hits, with 20 on shield blocks

with sentinal up
i got crit'd for 35, 17-25 for normal hits, and all my shield blocks were single digits.

i dont know about enmity yet. but so far this is like a mini-invincible. it grabs hate, protects you a LOT, and lets you generate MORE enmity with subsequent actions.

edit:
with valor boots on, its near 100% damage reduction. hawt

Edited, Dec 18th 2006 5:54pm by EnthalpyTheBurninator

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 3:01am by EnthalpyTheBurninator

i just spoke w/someone who tanked fafnir

he said rampart's shield effect was blocking hurricane wing.
score one for that

Oh my fu.cking god

That's some serious damage reduction power

Edited, Dec 18th 2006 6:20pm by Valrath

ooops, thought was *with* v. boots on. With them, it's 100% damage reduction. This is just beyond godly. Thank you SE!

Edited, Dec 18th 2006 6:26pm by Valrath

well think of this. your tanking an HNM or just anything.
your getting mauled.

throw up sentinal. now your taking next to nothing for damage, and now you have some enmity boost.

now a cure4....
which is an enmity boosted cure4....

wheres the hate now? lol.

i could see this being invaluable on HNMs and other things. its great for PT situations too.

Edited, Dec 18th 2006 5:52pm by EnthalpyTheBurninator

actually sentinal is phsical damage mitigation

rampart is complete magic damage shielding

omg! did they just make valor boots useful?

So if you're saying with Valor boots it's 100% reduction; that -kinda- gives you a 30 second Invincible every 5 minutes, with a slightly reduced hate spike?

Well... lets hope everyone else notices the difference and picks up PLD's more for PT!

thats without valor's boots?

I've only done a few small tests so far but from what i noticed:

The damage mitigation does grow weaker as time passes. On Hpemde i was seeing things like 1>4>9>11>13 etc. damage taken.

Valor Boots do boost the effect noticeably, but it is not always 100%. Tanking Zilart mission 4 for a friend, as well as a few mobs in sea, the 1st hit after sentinel did 1 damage. I haven't been able to teel yet if the boots reduce the rate at which the effect weakens.

Of course it is much more noticeable on mobs that will hit harder than others. Try this out on Lesser Colibri, and you'll probably be disappointed. Use it on something that will hit for 50+ and it is much more noticeable.

Haven't been able to prove or disprove this, but rumor has it Sentinel no longer spikes hate alone, only enhances anything you do to generate hate while it is in effect.

As for Rampart:

Valor Coronet does enhance it of course. I can't get a very good idea on just how much Stoneskin-ish it gives, but i have heard 100 without coronet, and 150 with. From what i can tell, the Stoneskin applies to anyone who is hit with Rampart's effect. Tested this, again on Zilart 4. Used Rampart right before Astral Flow, and no one took any more that 120 damage. Take that for what you will, Astral Flow doesn't do much in that BCNM to begin with.

Also, the shield Mastery kicks ***. Timing your cures-utsusemi-/RDM buffs is a bit easier now if you feel confident in your shield skill. The Spell Inerruption down does seem to be 100% when you do block. I have yet to be interrupted during a shield block.

Has anyone tried /PLD Sentinel?

If you wanna go this route, you are better off with /RDM. Stoneskin, Phalanx, Enspells, Blaze Spikes. Its true however you wont be able to spam cure yourself for hate because of a huge damage reduction, the way to hold hate with /RDM is spamming flash, blind, and bind or the occasional sleep for spike hate and most importantly your JAs.

Putting up Stoneskin in mid-battle is no longer an issue, with PLDs A+ in shield skill, bloking hits means no spell interruption at all. I was soloing Heraldic Imps all day yesterday (earned 4 merits ^^), I must say I am really impress with this update. Putting up Rampart when the Imp does a tier 3 nuke or a tier 2 ga nuke, if Rampart is not ready, Shield Bash or Flat Blade to stun it. Worst case scenario if the Imp just happened to do the Amnesia move on you >.< just put up the corresponding Bar<element> spell, chances are you will get your Bar<element> spell up before his nukes goes off.

-Azn

edit- Sorry I'm at work lol, damn graveyard shift, I just reread your post and it says PLD+SMN not PLD/SMN doh. sorry about that ^^;

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 4:34am by Aznpride

Can someone confirm whether AF2 needs to remain equipped for the bonus to remain active, or can it be macro swapped in/out as Drg do with their AF2 Head, or is it like Mnk AF2 Feet which need to remain on for improved Counterstance?



I'm sorry... are you seriously complaining about what amounts to using Invincible every 5 minutes?