Quote Originally Posted by vileragnorok View Post
ive done my fair share of complaining pld is far from usless in abbyi currently use pld daily in abby.i must say very productivlyproblem i see is empty vessles with a shield skill 220 lv 90 on the feild wondering why they suck.pld has always had to work hard to be a shining star on the battlefeild,with pld being my only lv 90 job for 2 years ive put alot of time and effort in aquiring the gear to be succesful,macros still need to be used for that extreme emnity boost to reach cap and stay there,plds need to prove themselves these days.there has been many times ive seen mnk,nin eva tanks fail and ive taken over for the win,you need to earn your place stop complaining, have you seen pld with emp shield its lol on the damage you take. the gear is there go get it,keep in mind old gear is still required as macro peices
By this thinking, a PLD needs Empyrean or Relic weapons/armor to be useful. I think this hurts the level of skill that many PLD's have built with 'budget' equipment sets. I have 2 Empyrean +1's for my PLD (body and legs), and I do ok tanking. The reason why MNK tanks are more popular than we are isn't because a MNK tanks better than we do... It's because of the hate a MNK is able to keep while a BLM is nuking and a DRG or SAM are doing massive amounts of damage.

No other job needs those rare and EXTREMELY hard to obtain gear/weapons to properly do their job. If you want to go above and beyond what the normal job player does, then yes, you need that high end stuff. All MNK's needed to be good tanks was their natural evasion, damage output, and job abilities. A PLD should be able to do the its job with what we naturally have.

Our evasion skills are a joke, meaning we need more attention during a fight (MNK's, outside of rolls and songs, just need haste and Cure). The damage we do is a joke (I think only dedicated mages have weaker attacks than we do)