Paladin nerf INC

[Phoenicia]

What I don't understand is PLDs claiming 3 years of being "bad". In 2.xx, PLD was king and WAR was 2nd class. In HW, WAR was king with PLD being 3rd.

People seriously need to stop b*tching and moaning about the balance state in one other expansion or patch. Imbalance in some previous patch/expansion does NOT justify imbalance now.

Because that is as relevant as saying "PLD is the only viable tank in FFXI with barely any situational competition where Rune master, Puppet master or Ninja being able to fill in, not even replace, but just be an alternative if you don't have the best one." which is NOT relevant at all in case you missed the point.

I mean, based on that logic, PLD here should be nerfed to the ground because in that game PLD has been the best if not the only tank for over 15 years now. WAR should be the only tank in FFXIV, with DRK and PLD being inferior 3rd class citizens that are barely better than a DPS inside their defensive buffs where their only reason for existence is to fill in in case you don't have a WAR...... Which is beyond silly.

What is relevant now is one fact: PLD blows both tanks out of the water in EVERY, SINGLE, RESPECT. Almost to the degree that PLD+PLD is the only combo you want/need. And, ladies and gentlemen, dogs and cats, babies and elderly, THAT is what needs fixing. Not necessarily by nerfing PLD (Please don't, it's FINALLY fun to play), but by bringing the other two tanks back up or close to where they were in HW.

SE buffed PLD with SB and I'm really happy for that. They also finally made it "fun" to play. Now it is not the snore-fest of spamming RoH or ending up not being able to hold hate, all while having the worst DPS, defensive CD gaps, massive TP issues and awkward tank swaps garbage it was in ARR and HW. That's a step in the right direction. HOWEVER, SE did NOT need to go the 100 extra miles to nerf-hammer DRK and WAR to the ground which is absolutely unreasonable.

And before anyone brings up the stupid line of "you're just salty your favorite tank isn't the FotM" crap, it's not a matter of FotM, it's a matter of ruining options. I do not main jobs, I main roles. As such I'm a tank/caster player. I like having my options, in HW and ARR, I enjoyed both caster options, a trend that's continuing in SB while adding a THIRD caster that is also fun and strong. In HW, I enjoyed WAR a lot and DRK wasn't far behind in the "fun" aspect. As things stand now, it's PLD or gtfo. DRK isn't bad at all right now, TBN is fun utility and the blood gauge is interesting, but it's not as "good" as PLD. PLD makes you feel like you're in control of your own fate along with the rest of the parties. Something WAR had a bit of (specially the own part) but was taken from and given to PLD.

WAR was my "favorite" because it was "fun". It had 3 combos instead of 1. It had 5 defensive options + ridiculously short and responsive ultimate instead of 2 + one prohibitively long "ultimate" that you end up dying before it takes effect while still costing you the CD. And it had fluid swapping between defensive and offensive tools. Not to mention a playstyle of "take actions to build towards something", be it fell cleave, unchained or massive self healing. Add the "bring it" attitude the WAR style and animations have and you have an absolute bad-a$$ class. Which was not the case of the snore-fest playstyle that plagued PLD for 4 years where you spam 1, 2, 3 and then press a button to take less damage... once a year.

I won't go into why any of the classes is over or under tuned right as everyone knows that. And if anyone pretends to not know then they're either lying to themselves or don't know much about tanking in this game at all. The point of my post is all about people need to stop justifying imbalance now because of imbalance in some previous patch. Otherwise as a RDM that found tanking on RDM fun in FFXI because it wasn't supposed to work but it did, I will demand that PLD gets deleted in XIV and RDM take its place!

~ Phoenicia ~