Why is Pld a meme

[Brian_]

You couldn't tell him because you're misinformed and making baseless assumptions. SE has said that they aren't nerfing WAR. They're going to try and bring the other jobs up to WAR's level. Not only that, but anything said now is purely speculation because jobs are changing in 4.0.

As for why PLDs are looked down on, I'll just give you a brief history since you missed it all.

In 3.0, they were terrible. By far the worst tank. The hardest raid at the time (Gordias Savage) took 4 more weeks of gear for the first PLD group to finally clear it. It got so bad that PLDs were getting excluded from static recruitment and rightfully so. They were terrible and any considerate player didn't waste the time of 7 other players with their selfish insistence on playing that job. They bottomed out in TP in a few minutes of up-time, had horrible enmity generation, impractical raid utility, and even failed in terms of their own mitigation due to most of the damage being magic based.

Since, due to more favorable raid design and substantial buffs, PLD has at least rebounded to the level where they're disadvantaged as a job but at least now you won't feel bad playing it (outside of A12S).

In the meanwhile, WAR has been a staple job for end-game raiding for all of HW due their strong raid DPS, raid utility, and monopoly over the OT role.