tank buffs/nerfs

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Originally Posted by Pinkie_Pie

So im lazy that I dont remember the fight and know the very second doing the cast or INSTANT skill to use TBN throught clicking a name and clicking the skill through server tick so the shield to be useful. K.

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If you've been playing even somewhat often since 4.0 dropped you'll full well know when to use it. Fights in this game are so static I'd hazard a guess that if you've done them more than three times you'll subconsciously know the general flow without even trying to memorize the fight. Granted, you said clicking. Personally, I'm on controller so all I have to do is tap on the d-pad, press the skill and done. I'll admit that it may be a bit more obnoxious with K/M, but for controllers it feels perfect. That said... Most of the time you use it on yourself, so there is no "selecting a target."

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Originally Posted by Sipherous

Shield swipe likely be brought to 120/130 potency as its essentially free DPS.

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Funny because the reason why low kick/brutal swing were removed was because people used it as DPS increase....why they were removed alongside all those other skills and not replaced with anything good is beyond me while PLD kept everything.

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Originally Posted by Tegernako

why they were removed alongside all those other skills and not replaced with anything good is beyond me while PLD kept everything.

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Low Blows was a great trait and I miss it dearly. You hit the nail on the head though, DRK and WAR lost stuff that was never restored, while PLD they just said "Yeah, you can keep all of this AND we'll give you even more." To put it simply, they had no idea what they were doing in regards to what they were adding or removing.

I’ve had all 3 tanks at 70 since July and I think Paladin is perfect as it is and cannot believe they want to mess with it! Absolutely dreadful decision IMO. Warrior feels pretty good lately and I’m in favor of buffing DPS a little bit, but no nerfs of any kind to it. Obviously Dark Knight is in need of improvement in raid utility, DPS, and fixing several abilities. I do enjoy playing it in normal dungeons and hunts though because I just like the class. Please SE, don’t nerf Paladin! It’s fantastic as is! Spend your time on DRK!

Gosh SE annoys me sometimes with this, PLD is fine as is all they needed to do is buff WAR and buff DRK while adding some use to the class but no they seem to fail at delivering everytime...

Look at Monk a whole two expansions later and they realized the class has issues that arnt related to dps but more so the way the class plays

As much as I hate to say it, nerfing PLD dmg seems a little needed. I main PLD and after playing around with the other 2 tanks it's pretty obvious that Holy Spirit is just a smidge too strong. A 400 potency nuke that requires the use of only a secondary resource, with no punishment and no loss to mitigation and can be repeated and spammed after only a few GCD is simply too powerful. And I just don't think that wildly adding potency increases to the other 2 tanks will address any balance issues.

I'm intrigued by whatever they mean by 'usability improvements' for DRK. But I'm keeping my expectations very low in a dark place to avoid inevitable disappointment.

I don't think it is PLD nerf because SE thinks that PLD is too powerful.
I think that nerf of the PLD is due to the changes introduced to WAR and DRK. Probably they couldn't find any golden mean in time they had between these three to do it different way.

And it's a DPS nerf, as I understand, they are not touching the playstyle. So the feeling should stay the same, DPS not (sadly). For WAR and DRK they want to introduce changes that will affect the playstyle.