Tank Balance

[Phoenicia]

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Nothing against you Ercapote and I understand your frustration, but you literally changed two threads with different topics into the same discussion of how Tempered Will sucks. Which is annoying. This is supposed to be an objective thread that looks at the three tanks balance and how they fit the current meta and you turned into "oh the woes of the PLD's Tempered Will". Let us keep this thread relevant to its purpose, which is the three tank balance and not make it solely into "buff PLD plx pl0x".

In the other thread you asked me to explain how PLD's abilities are good. In this thread, I explained where the three tanks are "fine" and where they aren't. Check my post here.

PLD is still superior to the other tanks in terms of defense even in the magical heavy environment of Alexander Savage. Check this long post.

PLD's problem isn't that it is weak or the class is bad. it is the meta that doesn't need such superior defense (which is PLD's niche). But blindly balancing the class to match a current raid might add underlying problems in future raids. If PLD did the same DPS as DRK, not WAR, while keeping its defensive superiority, DRK will have no place in raids. I'm not even worried about WAR's spot since it is the only tank with the all too important slashing debuff! (Another problem on its own).

DRK is a worse tank than PLD in every respect. Only reason DRK is "relevant" now is because content allowed it. If future content requires any form of physical mitigation that isn't simply "Throw all your biggest CDs every 2~3 minutes", DRK will be the tank left out since WAR and PLD both do a better job at reducing damage.