Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
I have played PLD since 2.0 launch and in 3.0 I almost quit the job because of a reputation is had gained from its imbalance. I was literally being rejected from PFs in favour of DRKs because of how much better DRKs were in raiding and ex primals, and it was a very demoralising feeling. This is not how the game is supposed to work, and the devs should be working to make party composition MORE accessible, not more limiting, and while they have done an ok patch up job with PLD over the course of the expansion (it is far better than it was now), the core of the job still needs love.
You weren't being rejected from PFs because SE made content impossible to do as PLD though, it was from the community's incessant need to adhere to a meta that is utterly not required for 99% of play. Its just a lose/lose for SE. People who play PLD because its the only tank they can manage need it to stay the way it is, great PLDs want it to be revamped so they can push it like other jobs - who do they cater to? Unfortunately most people who play dont even know what rotations look like and are content to stay that way. SE will likely, and from a business perspective unfortunately probably should, cater to them.

Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
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lol I'm glad those are what you took from what I said. I really shouldn't have expected much else.