Suggestion - Increase PLD Healing Support, not Dps

[pandabearcat]

However there isn't any fight that a pld can solo tank that another class cannot solo tank.

Furthermore, most fights have mechanics that necessitate another tank.

Therefore this line of thinking doesn't really mesh with how MMOs work.

Literally the only thing that kills a boss is dps - hence everything is done to maximize dps. (we will avoid discussion of "healing bosses" like valithria dreamwalker for now...)

The only reason healing is needed is so that dps don't die, as that is a dps loss. For example if there is ever a mechanic where it is better for someone to simply eat it and die, rather than the rest of the group do the mechanic, than that is what the optimal strategy will do.

For this reason, unless PLD's "healing support" is enough to either replace a healer with dps or make it so that a healer can output more than the dps loss of the raid, because he doesn't need to heal as much, there is no reason for it.

We are also constrained by the fact that being a "safe" tank doesn't mean anything in progression and high skill play, which is the only time you will actually need to worry about your team comp - this is why you will bench a PLD when its marginal survivability (if that) will not contribute to your group's dps, and therefore is suboptimal.

Noone really cares if you run PLD in your static, and indeed many PLD have beaten savage turns. It is only if you are trying desperately for that last ounce of dps that you will bench a PLD in favor of something else - and this is what I assume people are trying to avoid.