[Suggestion] PLD and War Drum

I see absolutely no reason why PLD shouldn't get circle slash back (hopefully with an enmity combo bonus). War Drum and Flash are clearly not enough to hold hate on a pack of mobs for anything longer than the first few seconds of a fight (there are also other significant issues with us having only 2 reliable AoE threat tools on longish cooldowns), and it's not like our AoE damage is going to be anywhere near Warrior's.

It's one thing for WAR to have a situational advantage over PLD (AoE Tanking/AoE Damage), but another entirely to have PLD be comparatively ineffective for a very important role (AoE threat and generating snap aggro on multiple incoming mobs). It does not make sense for a premier and specialized tank to be so powerless in a very important scenario.

TLDR; War Drum is an under-tuned ability by any metric (this needs to be buffed regardless of what you add to the class), and Circle Slash would be a welcome and reasonable addition to PLD's arsenal.

Like someone mentioned, if we could just get Circle Slash back, that would be great. I just came back to the game about 2 months ago and while I was leveling I was asking myself "where is my Circle Slash?" Why did SE get rid of it?

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Originally Posted by DeadlySwordz

I don't know if anyone else would agree with me but I think this could make PLD a better tank for aoe hate. Instead of War Drum being activated only after a successful block like Phalanx, it should maybe always be available to PLD's instead of the 60 seconds cooldown. Or maybe reduce the cooldown to x-seconds. Another direction could be, make War Drum cost like 250tp to use or like 500tp or something with 0 cooldown. What do you guys think?

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Ideally, all War Drum needs is a reduced cooldown and a slight buff to the damage or enmity modifier. I do agree that it should be looked at, however.

PS: Bring back Circle Slash