Why not? My PLD fix-it thread

[Sarick]

No. That won't fix anything. Enmity and battle mechanics need to be fixed.

I agree that the enimity system is broken It was listed in my post.

I proposed a change to Cover: Increase shield block rate while it's active. Cover =/= fix.

What good is that fix if you can only use it once every 3-5 minutes. Cover should be more useful then once every five minutes. It's rarely used in comparison to the warriors provoke because the ability has such an awful recast.

Penalties and rewards for pacing battle, phasing out zerging and the need to zerg, and a slight decrease in offensive capability are what will fix PLD. It's not that PLD is even particularly broken, it's that fighting in general is broken.

The developers most likely won't do this directly to the job because it's not supposed to be a high damage job. There is hope though when they mentioned changing the way one handed weapons work.

That is why most of the changes I suggest are not even geared toward PLD. Fix fighting mechanics and PLD will more or less fix itself, with a couple of slight enhancements.

I'd still like cover to be extensively more useful with a lower recast just increasing block rate is kind of sad for something that doesn't last long and has an abysmal recast rate.