Quote Originally Posted by Dale View Post
w/e greever

Just because it's 2011 doesn't mean paladins should stop curing themselves, and I think this whole discussion has turned into nonsense. Obviously the paladin was designed to heal himself while tanking. If you want to be a job that focuses on primarily doing high melee damage, the paladin is a poor choice in jobs. We are designed to heal ourselves, and that will help fix the enmity gap so many of you are feeling when compared with other high damage melee.

But you can play the job however you want. But just let me say it's no wonder to me - just by reading the way so many of you play this job - they you are all clamoring for more buffs, say the job sucks or isnt' viable ect...

Paladins who think healing is a waste and is a thing of the past. I have heard it all now lol

I wonder what is next. Black mages who don't nuke and demand their melee be buffed because they are no longer viable as dps
u just dont get it do u. there is no relevant mob in this game that a pld can tank with out support. If a mob can be shadow tanked (/nin) give any DD the same support you would give to a pld and the DD will tank just as good if not better. The same goes for blood tanking. as mentioned before getting -pdt% gear is a joke now, and given the same support pld loses this battle also.

Who gives a shit if a pld can cure itself in an event where said pld needs support? 90% of the time, if ur curing urself for survival AND u have support, ur getting cure bombed, in which case destroys ur arguement that u can use cure for hate. But then again if ur talking about cure spamming for hate/survival, DNC dose it better.

U see my last statement? ill repeat it, DNC dose it better. No matter what arguement u make, u can attach that statement to any other job and its the god honest truth. There are only a few exceptions, but thats barely a handful where Pld dose it better. And that is the real problem with the job, not lack of holding hate or JA's.