Savage Alexander and the Paladin Exodus

[Nadirah]

The problem was, and remains to be, that DRK can output higher DPS while mitigating more magic damage at lower gear levels. This, in turn, made DRK/WAR and WAR/WAR more viable for progression by default and left PLD in the dust. Even if content where physical mitigation is more important, if it still results in lower DPS than DRK/WAR then people are still going to bring DRK/WAR (or WAR/WAR).

If they'd stop making them pure DPS checks, then maybe we'd have a better shot at it.

As it stands, doesn't matter if PLD has better defense. When the goal is "kill it before enrage" you're going to take whomever has the highest DPS.

They had an item level expectation before successful completion. They should have delayed release until a fair number of players actually *had* that level of gear and then maybe you'd have a fair assessment. If not everyone can perform equally RIGHT AT RELEASE OF THE CONTENT, there is a problem.

Seems to me they need the mobs to hit harder and make more content around requiring massive coordination between heals, defensive tanking and less DPS enrage checks. IE none of this nonsense where the healers need to help DPS, make the check be about how quickly you can heal and/or tank massive crushing attacks.

Tenacity/attrition checks.

Making their mitigation more valuable by the fight dragging on longer. Your "enrage" is "healers are out of MP".

That's how most fights worked for the longest time in EQ2. Tanks wanted to take less damage, DPS didn't want to take any damage, and healers had to manage power. Healers out of power = wiped.

So I'm watching that video and I gotta ask..

What's killing their MP? Monk and Ninja specifically.

I'm not aware of anything they have that costs MP?