whats going to happen to PLD

[Sp1cyryan]

Seems like lately PLD has become, well useless in [A] zones can we get some love here SE?

Forever a LOLPLD

[Fiarlia]

Somewhat of a tangent, but I need to get unlazy and farm some good augmented Dark Rings, at the moment my MDT is capped, but PDT is around 52 at night I think, and only 46 during the day... might be 51/45, not 100% sure off the top of my head, but I think that capping fulltime requires either getting good dark rings Dark Rings or buying various pieces of shit gear with low amounts of PDT on them, and my BLM already hovers at like 76/80 while keeping currently unused obi's in mah satchel.

Good Dark Rings would also let me cap PDT/MDT in far less slots. >.> Also, all jobs is hawt.

[Scuro]

PLD is a job? Is that supposed to be coming out in the next expansion? /trollface

[Dazusu]

Or you could use rdm to tank tia, since they need much less support. Or sam wrks too even.

I already stated the RDM argument. You know yourself we used RDM for pretty much everything back in the day.

[rog]

I already stated the RDM argument. You know yourself we used RDM for pretty much everything back in the day.

Did you? Sorry, in class, not paying attention, skimming posts, etc. Either way, my point was pld is not an efficient job. Using one job to do nothing but tank is just silly. As i said, sam can tank tia fine, and if you want to be safe, you went with rdm, because in addition to being a far better tank, they also could perform other roles, such as enfeebling, support, etc.

[blowfin]

PLD has a bunch of uses. Straight out of the box it's probably going to be junk like most everything else in in Abyssea, you need to invest some time in getting decent gear and atmas. AOE burn, Red and Blue procs, holding with super -DT, soloing a bunch of stuff, are all things a PLD is capable of in Abyss. Saying it's "useless" is largely sensationalist garbage.

[Fiarlia]

PLD has a bunch of uses. Straight out of the box it's probably going to be junk like most everything else in in Abyssea, you need to invest some time in getting decent gear and atmas. AOE burn, Red and Blue procs, holding with super -DT, soloing a bunch of stuff, are all things a PLD is capable of in Abyss. Saying it's "useless" is largely sensationalist garbage.

Read the posts in the thread, everything you said was already countered.

[blowfin]

Read the posts in the thread, everything you said was already countered.

Not really. Just because the bandwagon is filling up to breaking point doesn't mean it's going in the right direction. Try to think outside of the box every now and then. Personally I'd much rather see a thread giving people ideas on how to get the most out of their job rather than everyone bashing it, but that's just me. "Go level another job" isn't exactly the kind of advice a lot of people are looking for.

And just so we're clear. I don't even have PLD levelled, so i'm not trying to defend some sort of outrageous gear choice anything like that. But, I've seen people in my shell do some pretty impressive things with it recently. Skilled veterans with multiple, extremely well equipped jobs as a matter of fact.

[rog]

No one said pld can't be impressive. The argument here is that other jobs are better.

[Rambus]

Good lord...some of these "PLD is gimped!" threads remind me of WoW threads when Deathknight was first introduced and they got dethroned off their high-horses...everyone spammed the forums with"WTF?!" and "DK is OP!!!" and Blizzard nerfed them bigtime afterward....shortly after which i gave up on WoW an started to play FFXI full time which was nearly two years ago...lol.

Not the same, everyone that is PLD or NOT PLD knows there is a problem.

WoW is more " I am not in the lime lite i am gimp zomg"