Quote Originally Posted by Isius View Post
As for you question, "As a complete package how does that alter PLD performance?" The Shield Swipe changes might allow Plds be able to mt bosses in Sword Oath without worrying about maintaining aggro
There's just a tiny bit of a problem.
To use Shield Swipe, you need to block. Something that was thrown out of the way with the huge focus on magic attacks.
We can imagine that next raids will give us more physical hits, which will instantly make PLD a much better tank...but largely cripple DRK...and would only be a fake balance between the three tanks.

DRK and PLD are only shining when content is specifically designed for them, which is a very deep issue.

As for increasing PLD damage output...ok, it's cool, but if they want each tank to be interesting, they have to put the emphasis on something else than surviving (Which all tanks can obviously do) or DPS (Where you'll probably always one above the other)