PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

[RapBreon]

It's not about viability as much as the number of "support" abilities. SMN has 6 or so abilities categorized as "support".. That didn't pigeonhole it into a role that doesn't exist. Why is BRD, therefore, pigeonholed into this role because of 2 abilities?

Oh and DEFINITELY Quality over Quantity.

0.o

If you had 490 attacks as a PLD, but they all had 5 potency would you consider it a DPS class?

EVERY class in this game has support, regardless of viability. BLM has Apocastasys that people "swore" by how good it was in FCoB, now it's even better than ever before!

DRG has Battle Litany and Pierce buff. MNK has Dragon Kick and Mantra, NIN has Trick Attack and Goad and many other lolviable "support" abilities. Those classes ARE picked BECAUSE of those said abilities. EDIT: Ninja provides the all awesome smoke screen and shadow whatever (Transfer hate).

Heck, PLD has Stoneskin, Protect, Clemency, Divine Veil and Cover to name a few. Why isn't classified "Support tank". I mean that would shut people up from requesting more DPS at the least. lol

Back to point, "support" as a role doesn't exist in this game and everyone provides it. There is no reason to pigeonhole a class or two into said role when it doesn't exist.

Every class also provides some degree of damage, but they aren't DPS either. Some do more and that's part of their specialization.

Ultimately they're classified as a 'support' because those two abilities give more to the group in absolute terms than anything else any other class brings utility wise by like more factors than I can conjure with my hyperbole wizard ball. Some fights everyone - but potentially gods, like world first kinds - will not be able to get through without those part-time mana batteries (like my group, the band of constantly OOM men).