If Paladin is "specialized in defense" shouldn't its defense be better always?

[Isius]

Well you can call it feedback or whatever you'd like. The ppl actually playing the game see these kinds of threads and stereotypes are born. I already stopped queing for Alex normal from seeing "BOOOO pld" every time and its happening more and more in expert roulette now.

I mainly play pld myself, and I haven't ran into this yet, but I have not done expert since 3 weeks in HW, but I still do Alex, and I really do everything I can to push my own dps, and mitigation as a tank that I can atm. But yeah, I had a friend last night that got made fun of because of their low dps as a pld. It really is mmo meta as a whole, more dps is always thought of as better, and with alex savage out it just stresses this idea even more so with it's strict dps checks. So now people are always comparing eachother, and why plds are pushing this issue dps/best def tank issue. I can careless I have a rng shield to increase mitigation when it's unpredictable, and only blocks physical attacks, Rng mitigation DOESN'T make one tank better then another when the REAL DMG YOU NEED TO MITIGATE COMES. Hallowed Ground is great and is the best def cd in game, but also has a 7min cd makes it one of the worst, so 10secs of no dmg for 1 raid run. I rather it be replaced by a weak % mitigation move on a short cd. But yeah, either plds need a slight dps upgrade or a increase in def to really make it matter so other party members can do the dps for us, when we can't.