FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustments Manifesto: Paladin

[Neisan_Quetz]

No, seriously, we (almost apparently not you) all already know Sage Sundi has made some pretty retarded statements about game mechanics, bringing them up now doesn't really mean anything. You might as well bring up the fact they were surprised a spell that lets you completely negate damage was being used for tanking.

[Rorrick]

Here's a question for Camate that epitomizes Paladin's plight;

Why does Perfect Defense negate all damage for nearly two minutes for all party members in range while Paladin's Invincible only negates physical damage directed at him/herself for thirty seconds?

[Andrien]

Umm.. That comment about Charybdis. PLD can tank that no problem. Just a different play style but, it is tank-able by PLD. Lv75 too. MNK/NIN, NIN/WAR, THF/NIN does it better though..(when shadows are up and hasted)

[Neisan_Quetz]

I'm going to pretend the difficulty to tank chary remark didn't happen, and for your sanity you should too.

Here's a question for Camate that epitomizes Paladin's plight;

Why does Perfect Defense negate all damage for nearly two minutes for all party members in range while Paladin's Invincible only negates physical damage directed at him/herself for thirty seconds?

Perfect Dodge doesn't even block ranged attacks as well, probably old coding or.. something. It doesn't say it protects from magic either. Compared to Wow's it lasts longer, but doesn't actually make you invincible, which is kinda funny.

It also makes for epic lulz when someone has a horrible Invincible macro about they shall not fall then die to Ancient Magic.

[Economizer]

Most of the 2hours need updating. Maybe a job trait at 91 or some level could boost the effectiveness of all of them.

Paladin could be more Invincible, or Invincible for longer for example. If you guys can convince SE to adjust your two hour, just make sure to get SE to fix Benediction to do what it says and adjust some of the pet job 2hours.

[Greatguardian]

I'm going to pretend the difficulty to tank chary remark didn't happen, and for your sanity you should too.

Oh I've done it on Paladin at 75 without issues =/. I just don't see your average Pld/War "please give us native voke" Paladin doing it, though, and felt the reference would be more relevant to them than talking about HNMs that half the forums have probably never even seen.

[Cursed]

No, seriously, we (almost apparently not you) all already know Sage Sundi has made some pretty retarded statements about game mechanics, bringing them up now doesn't really mean anything. You might as well bring up the fact they were surprised a spell that lets you completely negate damage was being used for tanking.

How tarded Sundi is, is not relevant. Statements were made in the past by Sundi and others. Some have held water to date, some/majority have not. I paraphrased Sundi's comments to highlight this point. It must have gone over your head.
If anything I agree that what ANY SE spokesperson says can't be considered fact and must be taken with a fair dose of skepticism.
"We will never raise the Lv.cap beyond 75".

And tanking Charby as PLD/anything with little support used to be noteworthy. I'm not saying it was epic, but as GG said it wasn't done on a daily basis by every earth staff wielding full 5/5 gallant outfitted PLD.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Oh wow, I saw Cursed's post and thought that was you, my bad.

[Cursed]

PLD just doesn't get any love. The PLD forums have had more views, more player replies, more complaints/suggestions/moaning than any other job forum/thread and much less replies from the Devs.
I just hope they're working on something....anything...and can't respond now because they recognize the depth of this problem.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Colour me wrong but I'm fairly certain 1-2 of the most viewed threads not in Gen discussion is over on the Rdm forums.