Poor Paladins

[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.