You know you've been a pld too long when...Follow

lol 90% guilty of all of these the other 10% are things i cant do because of my lv ;;. i take pride in being a pld and protecting others we all do our noble duties /em salutes all pld's in here.

when you eat 1000 exp dying as you save people in Yuhtunga killing six gobs at once wearing only Chocobo clothes and your shield.

- When you know your rng is about to pull hate before the monster even turns and cast cureIII (cause you feel like using cover) before the ranger gets hit but by the time it lands the cureIII heals for max.

- When you tell the thf to SATA off of the ranger cuase you would rather be the one getting hit the entire fight. (this one really gets you some looks)

- When you die 3 times on one lizard tryin to lvl whm in the dunes and laugh about it.

- Cant stand being in a party with other tanks becuase they cant hold agro.

- When you yell at your screen when the pld in you party in the dunes doesnt use thier mp.

- When you yell at your screen when the pld in your party in the dunes only casts banish.

- When you know your going to die and there is nothing anyone can do about it 30secs before you die.( I love sitting back and watching as everyone in the party uses every hate gaining ability they got and it still wont leave you alone)

- When you die and giggle as you see how much dmg everyone else is taking from the same monster

- When you check how much def you have every ten mins

- When you tank in a party with nukehappy BLMs and crazy RNGs perfectly fine while reading this entire thread X_x;'
- When you do a search of PLDs in your level range in the same zone, find them, check them, and compare armor
{repetitive}
- When you insist on tanking in the dunes as DRK because your WAR is an idiot (How hard is it to grasp the concept of voking every 30 seconds?!?!)

OMG!! All so true! I love being a PLD, I hate trying to lvl any other job, I keep hitting my voke macro as a thf >.>

-You get hit for 753 from Tornado and live, then laugh about it, cuz the pt is trying to get the antican off of you, (in the red btw) and they can't do it...

-Laugh when you hold a 1200 MB Freeze (with out voking etc)

-Get pt inivtes when you're /anon and Invis for PLD (While on a a date with my baby)

HEHE! Just had to contribute.

-When your WAR/NIN dies from a 750 Death Scissors and you shrug off that very next 375 Death Scissors in the next fight.

-When doing a Promy mission you wonder how the hell you ever kept hate without flash.

-When you have 2 BLM in the PT casting freeze at the same time and the mob does not look away.

-When you go to the Dunes and you cast Holy Circle during the day time.

you know youve been a pld too long when (At lvl 48):

you dont fear Jet Stream, Sickle slash, or any Exoray attacks.

you love training undead where-ever and whenever you can.

you go down to qufim to help parties at the lake come nightfall.

you dont care if you get red hp as any other job.

you are uncomfortable when you arent taking hits.

you find yourself hitting your voke macro when lvling jobs without that ability.

you feel a burning need to tank anything and everything no matter how hard it is.

when you have to equip a round shield you think it looks too pansy.

All of the above i am guilty for.... <3 PLD

-when in mid battle you get a bad pop / link and start mashing you Flash macro, then the shield bash macro, only then do you realize you are leveling War...

-when the Blm MB freeze for 1200+ damage, starts running behind you, and you ask what they are doing cause the Mob never moved. >:) Did that for the first time this weekend, talk about a grin on my face you couldn't slap off. :D

Hate to see this thread die......

This is a lot of why I want to be a Paladin.


Yeah, just call me sentimental.

When:

-You have to buy the lvl 60 Gold/Gilt Armor because you think the AF armor is too flashy for your Royal Great Sword. (Guilty)
-You sit in water to "clean" your armor. (Guilty)
-You make/create the actual AF armor to wear to a Convention.
-You actually try to order Tav. Tacos at the local Mexican resturant. (Guilty ><)
-You ask a Red Lobster waitress if they have the Shallops Tropical special.
-You buy the most defensive armor for your WHM.
-You tank as a WHM.
-You go to Souplantation and create your own Tav. Salad.
-You try to create the +1 version of the Tav. Salad.
-You are lvling DRK and still use sword and shield.

- you think being the pld automatically makes you team leader(sorry team, but the shiniest armor should have the highest authority)

- you give the fishing rod back to the elvaan kid, not even knowing that you have to for the AF weapon quest, because it's just the "right thing to do"

- you try to cover the PL even though he's about 50 levels higher (seeing a taru whm take damage just makes me feel yucky)

- ... and then you remember that you're a taru whm yourself ><

- you want to sub something besides war just to see if you can still hold hate without voke (no one would ever let me XD, but i really think having "Counter" would be fun with a mnk sub)

- you get mad every time you see a high level drk in AF, because you just want to show them the light (did FFiv teach us nothing?) (Cecil is my hero^^)

- you make a new character just to see what it would be like to be a pld of a different race (i don't even plan on getting any other advanced jobs)

- you don't like using the abbrev. pld, so every now and then you use the auto-translater and say (Paladin) just to make it look more important

that's all i got... /cheer (Paladin)

when you are lving nin as a subjob and forget that nin 2hr isn't invincible -_-;;;

-when you agree to tank a 65+ NM at level 51 for a friend just to see how long you can last. >;-)

-when you fight the NM Pug for your AF boots, get hit by Screwdriver for an insane amount of damage, fall, get raised, and start tanking it again. (Thanks Dainid, Joshuaf, and all the members of Cheapskinks for helping) /kneel

/panic

You mean I have to wait until level 29 for the "good stuff"?


OK, I'm tempted to start a thread: "You know you want to be a Paladin too much when..."

lmao im only lvl 32 but im guilty to about 40 % of these :)

also when lvling drg in dunes i voked of the pld cause he wasn't tanking "proberly" :)

Edited, Thu Jun 9 07:30:07 2005 by Gozba

- You see an angry Monk throwing his fist in the wall ...
... feel sympathy for the wall ...
... and try to Cover/Cure it.

All the while, your Elvaan drk friend wonders how he managed to hit such a "small" target ... and your blm friend why the wall didn't move out of range.

I'm guilty of just about everything in here but anyway heres a few of mine....you know you've been a PLD too long when...
-You decide to lvl whm and your magic lvls aren't capped past lvl 10...
-Your cure heals for more than the RDM's....
-When you lose hate even if nobody dies you {I'm sorry} to the whole pt....
-You buy armor so far in advance that when you equip it people ask you how much it costs and you say "I forgot"....
-You actually have a large enough MP pool to PL pt's in the dunes w/o whm sub.....
-Your lvl 45+ and still have a cache-nez worked into your provoke macro to add hate....and lastly
-When you party in the dunes as a non-tank job and you give the current tank pointers cause he's a n00b so he cusses you out in n00b and then calls you an idiot....yeah and he doesn't believe you have a 60 PLD even though your rank 6.....n00bs XD

-When you level in qufim and laugh in the face of a 22 sword and shield War/Whm when they repetidly try and fail to take hate.

-When you level Dragoon in dunes and are happy when your party can't find another tank.

-When you are leveling Dragoon in the dunes and your the only tank and the party is afraid to pull a Goblin Leacher and you say, "What the hell, I'll tank anything."... and live.

your level 16 smn dies while trying to tank because you saw someone else get aggro

your level 16 smn hp goes red and you think you can survive one last bomb toss

you get concerned over the health of your avatar and try to figure out how to grab hate so it doesn't die

you feel weird not eating fish type food when leveling anything else

Ashi

Absolutely!

- When you've countered a mob's Eagle Eye Shot with Invincible. Have to be very quick >.>

- When you keep a record of most damage taken in one blow - like DD's keep a record of most damage done.

My record is 1603, Titan - Barstonera wore - 2 HR - Pwned.

You know you've been a pld too long when...

Your HP goes down to 1 HP and you don't flinch. Everyone goes "OMG... o.O; 1 HP!!! geez you almost died" and you say "*brushes his shoulders off* Death + Paladin = Bestfriends."

When ya hope and pray that your mages forget to silence anything that cast -aga spells and Ancient Magic.


Ali:P

Edited, Sun Jul 10 14:35:44 2005 by Alissah

My follow up =P
You know you've been a pld for too long when.......
You've quit the game but still come back to te forums to post some advice hoping that it'll help the new players ^.^

-edit typo-


Edited, Tue Jul 12 10:18:17 2005 by Militades

-When you get 300% TP 1/4 of the way through the mobs life, but u save it for the begining of the next fight so u can do 500+ dmg.

-You send /tells to your whm telling them to chill it when they try to keep you topped off in the middle of a fight.

-Just for fun, when ur friend is partying in a camp right next to yours, u cure III them and use Sentinel just to get the mob off of them when they pull, and you take it to their camp for them.

-When farming with a friend, you sub thf but still try to provoke when you lose hate.

-When skilling up you try to use shield bash even with ur earth staff equipped.

-Regardless of how sure you are going to die, you never use Invincible with more than 100 hp.

-You wonder why the BLM still gets behind you before casting, when they know their AM MB Hasnt broken 1100 dmg all night.

-Dying to you is funny, though you still feel good when the WHM sends u a /tell apologizing.

-You feel ashamed when the rng does barrage then sidewinder and manages to take hate for a second.

-Your whm says "you and this rdm make my job too easy" and it brings a smile to your face.

-You wonder why other paladins are using anything besides Kite and Jennet shield from lv28-50.

When in Bibiki Bay & a mob uses a 860 Flare followed seconds later by a 640 dmg Bomb & you say,

"Well that was fun."