PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

Divine Veil - Rework Divine Veil to a buff that lasts 20 seconds. Every combo'd Goring, Halone, or Royal Authority while active grants a personal shield for 8% of the PLDs maximum health, for a total of around 3 shields during the duration if timed properly. Remove the current effect since it is too niche.

Flash - Significantly buff the enmity modifier on Flash, or add 50 potency to it so it can compete in AOE with other tank classes.

Shield Swipe - Add a small frontal cone AOE effect to Shield Swipe. Keep ON the GCD and remove or halve the TP cost.

Sheltron - Make it capable of blocking physical AND magical attacks and add a 20 TP regeneration on block.

Bulwark - Add an effect that reflects 20% of the blocked damage to the attacker when active.

Sword Oath - Increase the potency by 10.

Rage of Halone - Increase potency from 260 to 280 or increase the enmity modifier on it.

Clemency - Reduce the cast time.

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Originally Posted by Sapphidia

I think this mindset only really works for WoW-style tanking where mitigation was a bit more constantly active but tanks only had 1-2 actual big Oh Shit cooldowns.

I like the cooldown management aspect of FF, it's the only part that makes the damage-taking part of tanking actually somewhat skillful, but if they negate the need for cooldowns outside of moments when things are messing up they need to remove a lot of cooldowns and turn them into more active/interesting tanking skills. Or just make them passive.

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I have a shit ton of CDs. I shouldn't need an external.

biggest difference is the MT damage atm, so why not have sword and shield oath work simultaneously?!

also str down should be moved to royal authority and halone's enmity mod should then be in line with butcher's and power slash.

(can't really buff OT dmg, cause of PLD's utility skills, if those are useful atm is a whole different story though)

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Originally Posted by Starkbeaumont

biggest difference is the MT damage atm, so why not have sword and shield oath work simultaneously?!

also str down should be moved to royal authority and halone's enmity mod should then be in line with butcher's and power slash.

(can't really buff OT dmg, cause of PLD's utility skills, if those are useful atm is a whole different story though)

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I'd rather add than remove. STR down at lower levels is good(RA at 60) and it'd mean I don't *need* to use Halone as much.

As it is, I can't use RA much because there's no hate mod on it or I lose it to my OT. And when I *do* use it, STR down falls off more than I'd like.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...sLaoo/pubhtml#

Going back through the thread is becoming increasingly hilarious.

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Originally Posted by Brian_

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...sLaoo/pubhtml#

Going back through the thread is becoming increasingly hilarious.

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Wow, a list of guilds / people I can report for cheating. =P

I'm kidding, but you may want to write off names.

Honestly, they should trade the strength down debuff from DRK and give the Int debuff to Paladin.

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Originally Posted by Brian_

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...sLaoo/pubhtml#

Going back through the thread is becoming increasingly hilarious.

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I stumbled upon a nice post a few pages back:

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Originally Posted by Tyrial

Except if they're played as aggressively as a WAR or DRK and have slashing rebuff, either from WAR or a NIN, then they're still competitive to the point that the damage difference is negligible unless you're pushing for clears while under geared.

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It may be my old-fashioned ways, but a difference of 346 DPS between the top WAR and the top PLD in A1S does not actually seem to be "negligible."

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Originally Posted by Adrasteia

It may be my old-fashioned ways, but a difference of 346 DPS between the top WAR and the top PLD in A1S does not actually seem to be "negligible."

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Just want to point out 2 things:

1. WAR's encounter time is 5:00, PLD's is 6:46
2. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1572848/

Your encounters tend to be shorter when you deal more DPS and kill stuff faster. Hence the importance of DPS.

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Originally Posted by Brian_

Your encounters tend to be shorter when you deal more DPS and kill stuff faster. Hence the importance of DPS.

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My point is that the numbers are skewed due to the length of the fights. Tanks aren't the only ones hitting the boss, fyi. :V There are a lot of factors to take into account that can't be taken into account with a leader board like that. It's pointless to try and compare numbers that way.