Honest opinions on flash , do you think its fair it has no damage how would u rank it

[Dzian]

It's interesting that some people are saying it's fine when...the developers themselves plan to completely overhaul combat in 4.0. I doubt Flash will remain as it is - if it does I shall be very surprised.

From what I read in a famitsu translation many plds changes and new skills will be more around defence than offence. and I flash isn't even up there with the list of useless skills that they're going to address. flash works and it's works well.

It is correctly balanced. PLD is build as pure defensive tank. It is fair, he has the highest mitigation, so it is fair he does less damage. The only thing could allow is having more enmity generation to compensate. But PLD shouldn't have high DPS, that's not his purpose. Otherwise, I will say yes to a AoE for big enemy group, but without the Enmity generation. We must not forgot what a PLD is. I still think PLD has too much DPS for what should be if you ask me. Instead of give them more DPS, I prefer give them more hate generation. PLD is not for damage.

I agree with this. The problem is that the games content up to doesn't. The only thing that matters in terms of clearing content is DPS. there are very few defensive checks or survival checks in place. and most of the ones that do exist are again dependant solely on DPS. Fail the check you wipe. pass the check you live with next to no damage taken. This is why PLD has had a lot of buffs over the last few months. It's Defensive nature didn't help it in a game built solely around DPS which is why they never get touched by raiders.

If the translation I read from a recent interview is accurate PLD's new skills in stormblood will be tailored around making it more defensive. if that's the case. I hope the content design is adjusted enough that defence is more important than it currently is.