Poor Paladins

[TheLastRaven]

The way I see it is just that paladins about being left behind at this moment. Yes we can still clear content and yes we can do savage 4 but that was with a few weeks of extra gear right?. we're still getting left behind due to the current state of the meta. This to Paladin players just sucks that our class is kinda being overlooked and the other classes can do our job better. We aren't getting much in terms of a buff, Yes we got a buff but it isn't much, Yes we do fine DPS as an OT but we suffer as MT right? Yes we can still play paladin but it doesn't change that we feel a bit forgotten. We just wanna have our class up to par a bit more is all. I for one am not looking to deal 1300 dps in tanking stance I just want to feel more useful. It's frustrating to people who play it as their main class. Yea I know people are tired of these threads talking about paladin but lets be honest to end with. If warriors or dark knights where where we are they would be doing the same.

[Cheraa]

Yea I know people are tired of these threads talking about paladin but lets be honest to end with. If warriors or dark knights where where we are they would be doing the same.

At least Dark Knights did exactly the same 5 month ago, where Heavensward was new and DRK the weakest tank. Well that was before Alexander launched, with its DRK designed Boss Encounter.

[Faeon]

Snip.

This is the problem, design an encounter to be more suited to certain jobs than others.

[Ralvenom]

This is the problem, design an encounter to be more suited to certain jobs than others.

That would be fine, if AS wasn't designed in such a way that pushing DPS to the max got you through it in the optimum way. Don't get me wrong; dps checks are fine. But tank dps should be a secondary or tertiary concern when designing encounters. 1 encounter (or maybe even 2) would be fine in this manner. But almost of the encounters in AS require not just good damage dealer dps BUT ALSO good tank dps & good healer dps.

It would be one thing if there was 1 boss more suited to playing PLD (not that being a PLD was required), 1 boss more suited to playing DRK, 1 more boss more suited to playing WAR. A good mix of those would be solid. Problem is, I think SE is still figuring out how to fit DRK into the mix, after 2.XX only had WAR & PLD for so long.

[SirPhoebos]

It would be one thing if there was 1 boss more suited to playing PLD (not that being a PLD was required), 1 boss more suited to playing DRK, 1 more boss more suited to playing WAR. A good mix of those would be solid. Problem is, I think SE is still figuring out how to fit DRK into the mix, after 2.XX only had WAR & PLD for so long.

This could fix the problem. It could also result in all three classes bitching about the meta. And not everyone wants or has the time to level and gear up three classes (especially if Job-Specific Left-side gear is the norm)

[TheLastRaven]

At least Dark Knights did exactly the same 5 month ago, where Heavensward was new and DRK the weakest tank. Well that was before Alexander launched, with its DRK designed Boss Encounter.

Yea and it wasn't as fair for them then. SE just needs to try a bit harder.