Yoshi P's Stance on Pld

[Faeon]

Seriously I don't see why they want us to continue scraping the bottom of the barrel and keep giving PLD's half-hearted attempts at fixes.

Probably because of the numbers, show that PLD still active in terms of numbers of players, also my own personal opinion is that they not interest in the JOB, you can tell they invested more time and resources into the WAR and DRK to polish them out.

Also I reckon they want us to play multiple jobs depending on the raid atm! Yoshi said the content at this time does not favour the PLD in one of the interviews, so in other words he is telling you for this round of content gear your DRK or WAR, next round gear your PLD or what ever.

[Ishkar]

Also I reckon they want us to play multiple jobs depending on the raid atm! Yoshi said the content at this time does not favour the PLD in one of the interviews, so in other words he is telling you for this round of content gear your DRK or WAR, next round gear your PLD or what ever.

The sad thing is that each of the points that SwordCoheir mentioned are completely unrelated to the content and will persist regardless. In any case, if it is truly their intention to have players switch tank jobs according to content, I have serious questions as to why they chose to make our esoterics gear job locked...

Regardless of how you look at it, it seems they didn't think things through. Locked esoterics imply that you focus your gearing efforts on one job, which means every job should be competitive in every content. Otherwise if different jobs in the same role are meant to be juggled according to content, locking esoterics to one single job only feels like a low blow. They are sending us two different messages.

[Faeon]

The sad thing is that each of the points that SwordCoheir mentioned are completely unrelated to the content and will persist regardless. In any case, if it is truly their intention to have players switch tank jobs according to content, I have serious questions as to why they chose to make our esoterics gear job locked...

Regardless of how you look at it, it seems they didn't think things through. Locked esoterics imply that you focus your gearing efforts on one job, which means every job should be competitive in every content. Otherwise if different jobs in the same role are meant to be juggled according to content, locking esoterics to one single job only feels like a low blow. They are sending us two different messages.

Makes sense Ishkar.

[Reynhart]

They are sending us two different messages.

They are sending only one message :
We didn't think anyone could beat Alex Savage without several Esoterics pieces, a point where the lesser DPS of PLD wouldn't be a real issue anymore. And now, we don't know what to do about it.

As for what to really do...the more I think about it, the more it hurts me to realize that increasing DPS is perhaps the more efficient way...
Every tank has enough mitigation to survive every content. On high-end content, healers already manage to pack quite a lot of DPS, while keeping the party alive. I don't really think you could manage to give them significantly more DPS by increasing PLD's mitigation. So, if PLD needs the same support as WAR and DRK, then its lower DPS will always be an absolute flaw (Even without hard DPS checks, people always want to clear content faster and faster)

So, what about "less support" ? As I said, healers already manage to keep everybody alive while doing great damage (for healers), so the "less support" would dangerously come close to "fulltime DPS" for healers, aka "no support". But in that case, why not taking a DPS instead ?