"Base/Simple" stigma of Paladin and how we must deal with it/prepare for the future.

[Duelle]

Have the devs really forced this though? Could it also be that Alex Savage was designed to be super hard unless you'd saved up your tomes and bought all that i200 gear..I doubt it was made to be cleared in the first few weeks.It was designed like coil was when it first came out. I doubt the devs would make content that wasn't viable with all tank situations.

The devs didn't force it, but they didn't do anything to prevent or derail what happened early enough, either. Even if Alex Savage was designed to be cleared in full i200 esoterics gear regardless of who is doing the tanking, it still doesn't negate that raids have used things to circumvent that. This in itself would be fine if it was determined by execution of mechanics, but instead it seems clears hinge on DPS from non-DPS jobs. I knew something was wrong when people started talking about how tanks should tank in DPS stance (the thing that's implemented for off-tanking).

What we're seeing is also trends forming and the playerbase judging jobs based on that. While some will delude themselves into thinking the contrary, the guilds that do world first clears and cutting edge content determine how everyone else sees and uses classes/jobs. The fact this hasn't sorted itself out and instead gotten worse (from "PLD has lacking DPS but brings utility" to "PLD is useless because it doesn't bring WAR-level DPS") is cause for concern.

[Seshayn]

*snip*

Well said. You are quite the inspiration to those of us whose passions override our ability to voice our thoughts in a calm and thoughtful manner.