Yoshi P's Stance on Pld

[Seku]

Stuff like Cover was, sadly, an answer to the people in 1.0 who complained that they wanted iconic abilities and jobs in the game. This said, I did suggest a long time ago that Cover could be implemented like Vigilance from WoW.

As I've repeatedly said, Clemency is an off-tanking skill. It's hybrid off-healing with the appropriate trade-offs. Of course it's not going to be a sure thing while getting hit in the face by the boss; that's an intentional part of the design. It's also eerily similar to how I'd expect RDM off-healing to be implemented.

Divine Veil's cooldown is fair for what it does: mitigate raid damage. That said, this is also a 1.0 relic since it used to provide a HoT on people near you when you received heals, and I'm guessing they thought it was a good mechanic to use. The only issue I have is the cooldown, but knowing that the shielded amount is based on the PLD's, it would probably be too much to reduce the cooldown to something like 90 seconds.

I can agree to a upgrade to cover like that.

Even while OTing Clemency is still pretty bad. Your healers should have people healed up unless their new, new to the fight, horrible, or SE makes a fight revolving around PLD curing people, they won't.

DV's mitigation is nice, but is largely not needed more so since both WAR and DRK can reduce damage on a boss and from what I'm remembering a lot of raid damage is magical based which falls under DRK's int down.

The above points I just pointed is why I'm actually praying that SE actually gives PLD more utility. As a damage and hate buff wouldn't really get us very far and would just really make it to where PLD = physical fights and DRK = Magical fights.

But in conclusion, I get a gut feeling SE isn't going to do anything with PLD really for a long time and we'll be seeing DRK MT a majority of fights in top tier groups until 4.0....or basically PLD is the new DRG. No good raid utilitah.