Thread: Rejoice PLD bros! Sentinel's getting buffed in 5.1!

Tbh i already thought PLD was beefy enough; a healing spell that can target anyone and heals you no matter who you use it on, a nice selection of defense buffs, invincibility, good damage, i could go on. Point is, I've played a *little* bit of every tank, and no one really gets the job done quite as well as PLD in my experience.

Still though, im not complaining, a little buff to the main is always a nice treat.

Originally Posted by TheForce

Nah Shao I'm pretty certain that they just said Sentinel and Vengeance would be getting the longer durations, while Shadow Wall and Nebula would be left as is.

According to Reddit discord they say sentinel and vengeance but the translation could mean using 2 examples to refer all of them, balance discord translation point to all 4 and my logic tells me it have to be all 4 since it doesn't make sense buff sentinel and vengeance while WAR is already pretty strong on the defensive department and leaves shadow wall and specially nebula behind when GNB is the weakest tank on that side.

I hope these changes mean that they are going to turn up incoming damage from raids to another level. If not these changes are overkill and further make the role feel static and not very exciting.

Originally Posted by Palibun

Tbh i already thought PLD was beefy enough; a healing spell that can target anyone and heals you no matter who you use it on, a nice selection of defense buffs, invincibility, good damage, i could go on. Point is, I've played a *little* bit of every tank, and no one really gets the job done quite as well as PLD in my experience.

Still though, im not complaining, a little buff to the main is always a nice treat.

Nah dude...Paladin's defenses were hit pretty hard with 5.0. What are these defense buffs you're referring to bro? Our total number of personal mitigation tools is actually low than that of the other Tanks.



Block's strength (our main source of mitigation that many of our CDs revolve around) was reduced by 1/3 in 5.0. Clemency is scaling a lot worse now, Hallowed Ground is an invincibility, sure, but one with a 7 minute cooldown. Even our party wide SD shield AOE, Divine Veil, doesn't affect us (which I still can't believe). I've been saying that PoA's overall utility really needs a buff because as of right now the move is just far too situational, and should pretty much never be used as a tool for personal mitigation.

PLD really needed this slight buff to Sentinel.

Originally Posted by shao32

According to Reddit discord they say sentinel and vengeance but the translation could mean using 2 examples to refer all of them, balance discord translation point to all 4 and my logic tells me it have to be all 4 since it doesn't make sense buff sentinel and vengeance while WAR is already pretty strong on the defensive department and leaves shadow wall and specially nebula behind when GNB is the weakest tank on that side.

Oh alright that makes sense.

Originally Posted by TheForce

Nah dude...Paladin's defenses were hit pretty hard with 5.0. What are these defense buffs you're referring to bro?

I always thought PLD had a decent few, maybe it really isn't that many in the grand scheme, but i never feel too much pressure to use them, and when i do i usually only need to use either rampart or sentinel to get the job done, even with big pulls.

Either way, i always felt PLD was very well balanced; any problems i've had with it come down to my own incompetence or lack of knowledge. ShB content might be harder on PLDs or something, but from a more casual, occasional ex runners perspective i've never once felt PLD was under-powered. I mean if it really was nerfed then nice it's getting better; i never said i was opposed to this.
As an AST player too i can also say a class doesn't need to be the best of the best to be fun either, nor does that mean it's 'bad'.