The Developers Need to Start Surveying Players After Every Patch

[therpgfanatic]

Really? Everquest tanks did equal damage to DPS?
As a longtime player of EQ1, EQOA, & EQ2 I can say that's not true.

It totally is true.

Realize that I am not referring to the DPS specs for Warrior, Paladin and Dark Knight and comparing those specs to EQ tank output, but fact remains EQ tanks were quite strong. I doubt the forum posts still exist at Allakazam from way back then, but I recall Jeff Kaplan and Rob Pardo being well known for their rants about tanking, and these opinions led to some early issues in tank design in WoW (namely the disparity between Paladins as tanks, and Warriors as tanks -- in EQ Paladin, as a hybrid was viewed as a better tank whereas Kaplan and Pardo were of the view if you are a hybrid you should be weaker than a pure class, and this design mindset created issues in WoW which seemingly are being repeated in FFXIV with Paladin design -- if I had to guess, PLD are being punished with lower DPS simply because the class has access to WHM spells, and now Clemency) which were not adequately addressed until WoTLK where they finally realized any disparity between tank DPS and mitigation would create frustrations in players who selected the less ideal tank class, leading to a tank shortage problem.

FFXIV has a tank shortage problem because they have intentionally made WAR the best, DRK 2nd best and PLD the worst. A lot of people choose PLD and don't realize the tanking disparity until they have already heavily invested into leveling the character. This causes frustration in players of the least desirable tanks, which leads to the shortage issue when they either stop playing a tank or leave the game altogether for somewhere else that doesn't have this problem. And the tank shortage problem will continue until the tanks are made equal.

Boredom sitting at work, as someone who is going to continue to play the game until it shuts down and as a paladin on several characters i take a vested interest in my job not being broken.

PLD having equal DPS output as WARs would not result in them being "broken", and that you feign interest for this reason only serves to reveal you are trolling.