The Fields of Glory (Shatter)

[Eorzean_username]

Your problems with PLD are the same as mine. Quite frankly, i'm not sure what I should be doing. Mostly just feel like a healer support in 72-man shatter, and a camp watcher in 24-man.

If I could Cover, Testudo, and Aegis Boon Crystals (reducing enemy damage), I'd feel a lot more useful.

So far in 72 (which has popped a few times now, the first times I've ever been in full Alliance Frontlines) I'm just another MDPS (making me feel increasingly-guilty for not switching to WAR).

In 24 ... I don't even know, 24 is really mellow and weird. I spend most of my time just waiting around or traveling long, scenic distances with nothing happening and no skirmishes breaking out. When Crystals finally spawn, everyone just meanders over and hopes the other team leaves them alone, because there's not enough resources to bother trying to attack and get a Crystal at the same time. And doing anything but DPS when a Crystal pops just consistently hurts my team, the DPS I lose throwing out Stuns doesn't slow down the opponent enough to make up for it.

It's mostly just Testudo, Full Swing, FOF, tunnel and hope it all works out because pausing for a GCD to go check on the healers or do anything else seems to only hurt my team's chances of success. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the design, maybe that's the intent, to have crazy Crystal tunnel-zergs interspersed with skirmishes between Crystal pops. If so, I think the pacing and tuning is off-kilter somehow.