Job Abilities and Weaponskills
Priorities
Strategy
Bosses
Primals
100
These three weaponskills are your primary combo for maintaining hate.
What is Fast Blade, Savage Blade and Rage of Halone?
100
In Amdapor Keep, you come across two Hound Lights and a Demon and prioritize the kill order in this way.
What is Demon, followed by Hound Lights?
100
Titan's heaviest attack, Mountain Buster, can be blocked consistently with a shield using this ability.
What is Bulwark?
100
When facing Denn the Orcatoothed in Sastasha, tanks must be cautious of being hit by his frontal cone attack, which will inflict this status effect.
What is Silence?
100
This frontal cone attack used by Ifrit is undodgeable.
What is Incinerate?
200
This ability increases your outgoing damage by 20%, while this other ability decreases incoming damage by 20%.
What is Fight or Flight and Rampart?
200
In the Wanderer's Palace, these enemies should be the number one priority because they drop lantern oil, used to quickly progress through the dungeon.
What are Tonberry?
200
Using Shield Bash, stunning this ability rapidly fills the Limit Break gauge in Ifrit (Hard).
What are Eruptions?
200
Anantaboga of Amdapor Keep charges this move to devastate the party as the battle progresses.
What is Imminent Catastrophe?
200
No matter the differences in all three Primals, this is one of the most fundamental and important things for a tank to remember in any encounter.
What is proper positioning?
300
This weaponskill has an effect that restores your MP when used in a Combo.
What is Riot Blade?
300
In Castrum Meridianum, these Imperials should be killed first, as they will heal their allies and prolong the fights.
What are Imperial Medicus?
300
By stunning or silencing these two Psycheflayer moves, the tank can prevent AoE damage to the party and Disease effects on one ally.
What is Mind Melt and Canker?
300
These are the four abilities/spells used by the Psycheflayer boss of Amdapor Keep that can be silenced by Spirits Within.
What is Water, Void Thunder III, Canker and Mind Melt?
300
You'll want to avoid this frontal cone attack from Garuda.
What is Slipstream?
400
This ability can be used when you are expecting heavy damage and want to make your healer's cures more effective.
What is Convalescence?
400
During Tam-Tara Deepcroft, Ak-Mena Groundsman should be prioritized after mages because they use this conal attack.
What is Overpower?
400
When tanking Ifrit Hard, this ability can interrupt Ifrit's Radiant Plume attack without actually inflicting a Stun status effect.
What is Shield Swipe?
400
This move, used by Batraal, has an extremely long range and targets a random party member before being fired three times.
What is Desolation?
400
Hellfire, Aerial Blast and Earthen Fury are not affected by this damage mitigation ability.
What is Hallowed Ground?
500
This ability places you at the top of the hate list in your party, but does not add actual enmity when used while you are already at the top of the hate list.
What is Provoke?
500
Shortly after Aerial Blast, Garuda will summon Chirada and Suparna, each having a different colored thread connecting them to Garuda. The off-tank will grab this add while the main tank can grab this add.
What is Red for the off-tank and Green for the main tank?
500
Despite not having an indicator, this spell can be avoided by moving to the sides or rear of the caster. Notable casters are Amdapor Keep's Psycheflayer and Succubi.
What is Void Thunder III?
500
In the Praetorium, Ultima Weapon will use this Titan ability shortly after using Radiant Plume, but will use this Titan ability shortly after Eye of the Storm.
What is Weight of the Land and Geocrush?
500
After crushing Titan's Heart, this attack is used by Titan immediately at the beginning of the next phase, and is used again every time after this other attack.
What is Mountain Buster and Landslide?
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