Paladin need to be review.

[Kosmos992k]

DEX/STR no longer affects Parry or Block since 3.0
Because PLD needed that Shield Block NERF in 3.0

you forgot the sarcastic emphasis on 'needed'...

Clemency Potency is increased by (Attack Power) => STR / Fight or Flight. (good luck to find any logic in that)

indeed none comes to MIND.

Divine Veil Potency is increased by VIT.

Go Go full turtle 250 DPS PLD in full Vita spamming disco ball Flash, rarw!

And i still found funny how the vast majority on this forum still swear that PLD is the strongest Tank in game when they are penalized by everything.

Indeed, none of our status attacks affect anything any more, so clearly we must be strongest since so many of our attack effects needed to be disabled....

[myahele]

PLD needs a tank stance aura

[Kosmos992k]

PLD needs a tank stance aura

Can it be a blue/white silvery disco light effect as if we were wearing 100's of tiny blue and white LEDs that strobe at random?

[nyttyn]

fight or flight doesn't actually affect clemency. it affects physical damage, which clemency is not. also doesn't buff flash for that reason.

you can even test it ingame really quickly and easily. pop FoF then pop clemency.

[Galactimus]

[B]Clemency Potency is increased by (Attack Power) => STR / Fight or Flight

Fight or Flight does not affect Clemency. Convalescence does though.


I'm also not sure where this whole "Paladin has no Magic Defense" argument is coming from. Take A1 Savage for example. Hypercompressed Plasma is the Tank buster.

First One: Rampart, Sentinel, Self-stoneskin (yes there's an enormous amount of time to cast it) - 6k damage taken.
Second One: Hallowed Ground - 0 damage taken
Third One: Same as the first. - 6k damage taken.

75,000 Magical Damage reduced to 12,000 taken. "Paladins so bad at taking Magic Damage." Yawn.

[Dhex]

STR to boost enmity and DPS - but PLD has less HP and generates enmity inefficiently so you'd expect to stance dance but our stances break combos, cost GCD, and drain MP. So we are slave to our Shield Oath.

MP consumption for Clemency is very high - but it's so slow it's hard to be effectively paired with Healers.

Cover bypasses our cooldowns - and has limited range.

Our high damage alt combo still has a step that is an enmity generator - but our regular use DoT combo doesn't.

We have strong on demand defensive cooldowns - that cycle slower than the other tanks making it so we have to know the boss rotations and busters - effectively spreading our mitigation thin making us the least efficient.

Divine Veil offers utility to the raid... for everyone but the Paladin - it scales off of Vitality - and not Strength which directly conflicts with other deficiencies in our kit. This also applies to Stoneskin.

We offer no tangible debuff to Magic Damage-- where both our counterparts do.

Paladin has TP consumption issues without bringing higher damage or enmity generation.

Our only offensive cooldown does nothing to augment our tool kit in any way whatsoever and has the longest recast period of all three tanks.

Somehow Paladin has become a comedy of contradiction... somehow they managed to make Paladin clunky - it's very disappointing.

[Pr0c3ss0r]

fight or flight doesn't actually affect clemency.

Omg you are right, and i found why too ><

Berserk: Increase attack power by 50%
Fight or Flight: Increase physical damage dealt by 30%

Clemency and Equilibrium is affected by attack power but since "Fight or Flight" is increase 'DMG dealt by 30%', then is totally ignored.



Once again.... Why they have so much love on WAR and so much hate on PLD?

[Launched]

Once again.... Why they have so much love on WAR and so much hate on PLD?

Clemency is affected by Convalescence, Mantra, Fey Light, Defiance etc. and can be cast more than once a minute. Equilibrium gets none of that and is only affected by Berserk, and you shouldn't be holding into Equilibrium to use in Berserk (or delaying Berserk to buff Equilibrium).

[Pr0c3ss0r]

Clemency is affected by Convalescence, Mantra, Fey Light, Defiance etc. and can be cast more than once a minute. Equilibrium gets none of that and is only affected by Berserk, and you shouldn't be holding into Equilibrium to use in Berserk (or delaying Berserk to buff Equilibrium).

You wish, Clemency is not affected by Convalescence, Mantra, Fey Light, Defiance etc, go try it if you don't believe. (is the same deal as Lustrate, Equilibrium and Second Wind)

[Launched]

You wish, Clemency is not affected by Convalescence, Mantra, Fey Light, Defiance etc, go try it if you don't believe. (is the same deal as Lustrate, Equilibrium and Second Wind)

I don't have PLD leveled enough to test it, but I'm 100% sure those abilities work on it considering it's a spell and I've seen people mention it, both in game and on forums.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...emency_protip/