PLD: Is Rage of Halone's debuff worth keeping up?

[Khubla_Kha]

I personally don't go through the effort unless the healer is fresh, I'm undergeared, or it's a fight I'm unfamiliar with. There are some bosses and phases where it's helpful (Calofisteri comes to mind, as well as A5S' Hummelfaust), but it's very situational.

The 10% Strength debuff isn't that helpful when such a large percentage of enemy damage is based on Int. It honestly feels like tanks were designed with WoW-style encounters in mind (where the effective 7-8% damage reduction would be extremely helpful), instead of FFXIV (where there just isn't enough damage going out to make it worthwhile). Tank design--outside of WAR--doesn't quite feel like it matches encounter design, and I'm hoping they address this in 4.0, to some extent.

I know this isn't really the thread for it. But your point about tank design not matching content/game design is perfectly spot on. It's as though they developed Pld specifically for a completely different game than FFXIV as it's tool kit is rather poorly fit to the game, lol. I too hope this gets addressed in 4.0.

And to tack onto what has already been said no the debuff isn't really "worth" (for reasons already mentioned) keeping up, but it is good practice to do so in the event they ever change things to where it does become worth it.