Thread: plat units = to blacks

Being anti-situational does not mean efficient. If Gellius fits everywhere but does not excel at anything except tanking, that isn't what I'd call "best plat unit". It'd be a debate to even say "most useful plat" either. Even if he's the best tank, his level of tanking is only really necessary for high-end bosses. If you can replace his job with Bernice half the time, that doesn't make him essential either.

If you can accomplish a job faster and with less risk by DPS'ing the fuck out of something instead of tanking and worrying about DPS/healing/leaks/etc., why wouldn't you? That is the argument for Nadia. What Nadia does is handle multiple roles (duelist/AoE), and she does that extremely well. She doesn't NEED to block more than one unit if she can AoE kill everything. She doesn't NEED to tank if she's not fighting anything short of a golem (and even then, Nadia can tank some of the lower-end golems). She only truly loses in cost, and neither unit is anti-rush anyway.

In the end, it boils down to what you value more in a unit. A unit that does extremely well at one job, or a unit that does sufficiently well at multiple jobs. You could make a case for other pure vs. hybrid classes, but in this case, Gellius does not have much else going for him besides tanking and cost, neither of which gives him a substantial lead over Nadia if he needs outside help anyway.