A Tank Balance Megathread

[Syzygian]

Sorry man but if you swap RoH, and SE debuffs around Pld will still lose out, and it will only make it worst, since we are losing the one tool that might actually benefit in the next raids, our -10% strength down debuff. But if Pld had the slashing debuff Pld, and is the only class in a group that can apply, it's dps will be gimped, and only isn't gimped, if a Nin is brought into a group. But that doesn't matter either since you will likely see Drk/War/Nin mandatory in the next raid tier from the RoH/SE debuff swap. Paladin in my mind still loses it's place in the raid scene again.

Buffing RoH's potency is easier is a far better, easier solution imo for Pld. Then trying to give Pld a raid dps buff utility.

I see what you're saying. I still think it makes sense though, for PLD to offer raid dps increases given its lower personal DPS. That's a theme we see across all jobs. The issue is, do we really just want to clone DRK's rotation where its basically get hate and then ignore the hate combo forever? That's why I didn't think it'd be ideal for putting it on RA. Perhaps if the duration of the debuff and Goring Blade were extended to 30s?

If we buff RoH's potency, how much would it have to be buffed so as not render RA/GB obsolete but still maintain PLD's current DPS at minimum?

I think ideally we want to see something along the lines, at the the end of the day, of RoH-GB-RA-RA-repeat or RoH-GB-RA-repeat, depending on the potencies.

Haven't heard much on DRK changes, any thoughts on those?