3.1 PLD Changes

[Ercapote]

Regardless of agreeing or disagreeing with anything that's been said so far in this thread, I can't see how this comes as a suprise to anyone. =/

Because how war was treated in 2.1 ? No? Do we forgot the massive overhaul they got and how PLD it's been treated?

[Syzygian]

Because how war was treated in 2.1 ? No? Do we forgot the massive overhaul they got and how PLD it's been treated?

That was a defensive overhaul that was a straight-up requirement to clear the content. PLD can clear content right now. People just unanimously don't like to use it because its inefficient.

[Silver_Blade]

As sad as this makes me it does not suprise me anyone who played FFXI pre expansion knows SE doesnt care about paladin much, in that game ninja tanks were gods in comparison to paladins they could do great dps evade 95% of attacks and debuff paladins did no dps took massive damage and in exchange they could cast 2-3 heals per mana bar....now here we are paladins can heal nice have great defense, but both other tanks are superior we can pretend they arent, but they are, more utility more OT and MT dps....and this is from a FFXI PLD and a FFXIV PLD

[Reynhart]

As sad as this makes me it does not suprise me anyone who played FFXI pre expansion knows SE doesnt care about paladin much, in that game ninja tanks were gods in comparison to paladins they could do great dps evade 95% of attacks and debuff paladins did no dps took massive damage and in exchange they could cast 2-3 heals per mana bar

Even back in FFXI, people asked more and more to buff PLD's damage.
And even back then, I thought that it was stupid. For me, PLD don't need to lean on the DPS side, but on the healing side. Make it so that a good PLD doesn't need a dedicated healer.

Which, by the way, was possible in FFXI, either with Ochain + Shield Mastery + DNC Subjob. Or by combining bonus to cure potency/cure received, and items that gives you MP back whenever you take damage.