The DRK storyline

[Grayve]

I liked seeing the old GLA npc's return in the PLD quest. I missed them in HW.

[Kyran-Varlsen]

I liked seeing the old GLA npc's return in the PLD quest. I missed them in HW.

But that's the thing. The 60-70 Questline was better than the 50-60 Questline for PLD because it was not a Paladin Story but rather a Gladiator Story.

As a Free Paladin, we are not technically tied to the machinations of Ul'dah beyond our association with the Sultansworn. But there was so much wasted potential for a "Game of Thrones" style plot which calls on us to act as a sort of Kingsguard figure, or maybe even intervene as a neutral knight in the House Politics of Ishgard to mediate a dispute that goes bloody. This is what I mean, the plot writes itself but they wen't with this boring as hell Oathkeeper nonsense for the 50-60 quest-line.

I hear so many wonderful things about the DK story, but I feel tied down to the Paladin job at present which really does provide me what I need to supply the other classes I am trying to level.

[Grayve]

But that's the thing. The 60-70 Questline was better than the 50-60 Questline for PLD because it was not a Paladin Story but rather a Gladiator Story.

That's a good point. It worked for me because I enjoyed the GLA npcs more then then PLD ones.... Fine. I am a huge sucker for romantic subplots. I just love happy endings, it makes me go D'awww, so seeing the GLA npcs' was great for me. Not to everyone's tastes I am sure, especially if you want more PLD lore. Though as a not exactly big fan of Ul'dah, I'm not sure how I feel about the job being tied to the Sultansworn, even if we are a free paladin.

[Draginhikari]

I thought the PLD was an improvement because I could at least follow what was going on and it didn't drift off into... whatever the hell the Heavensward ones were suppose to be. It's true the PLD ones this time around was more of an extension of the GLA storyline but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

[Kyran-Varlsen]

I thought the PLD was an improvement because I could at least follow what was going on and it didn't drift off into... whatever the hell the Heavensward ones were suppose to be. It's true the PLD ones this time around was more of an extension of the GLA storyline but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

For me, I just think it a missed opportunity. The Sultansworn stuff was a bland mess. And it's not like I respect them considering they were sitting out the entire Palace Intrigue that booted us into Heavenswards Content. If they were doing their job, Teledji would have been cut into pieces long before Raubahn was ever interrupted from his dinner. While I enjoy being a Paladin and how well it ties (or did tie) into my being a White Mage, I can't help but feel the class itself was shown very little respect by the developers when it came time to tell us the class story.

I mean for heaven's sake, the Hildebrand Story was a better Sultansworn Story than the actual Paladin Quests themselves, any of them lvl 1-60. A string of crimes connects us to a leading member of the Order tied to an ancient Ul'dahn conspiracy to cover-up one of Eorzea's greatest war crimes. This sounds a hell-of-a-lot better than finding lost honor through a lost sword that lost power.

And the Ul Cup story meta was bull. We weren't fighting swordsmen, we were fighting spell warriors that were dropping magic aoe circles the way most people drop trash into a can. Then in the cut-scenes of course they are just clanging blades like normal. It was dumb and stupid from any perspective.

It's stuff like this that makes me want to just lvl up a DRK (haven't yet) but then I remember that I am currently working on the Paladin Anima Weapons and drat... then again, DRK already had a bunch of good looking weapons.

Better then pld storyline.

Anything is better than the PLD story, the freaking White Mage story is better than the Paladin story.