Kneejerk reaction to PLD changes.

[Atreides]

I don't understand all this passive agressive WAR bashing in general, we play the same role, how about we just get along and wish for the best for all of us. We all just want to be viable and have fun in this game.

If WAR somehow doesn't end up as the highest dps tank (present potency estimates aside), then the WAR community is going to complain until the devs make it into the highest dps tank. We saw this in 4.x as well. This job catering and entitlement is what has brought this game to this point.

I suspect that tanks and healers will be in short supply this coming expansion.

The changes were not made because Warrior had bad DPS, they were made because they completely screwed WAR up in the beginning of Stormblood. This job was a mess in a gameplay perspective.

[mrt617]

I don't understand all this passive agressive WAR bashing in general, we play the same role, how about we just get along and wish for the best for all of us. We all just want to be viable and have fun in this game.



The changes were not made because Warrior had bad DPS, they were made because they completely screwed WAR up in the beginning of Stormblood. This job was a mess in a gameplay perspective.

My intention is to not bash Warrior so much as that Warriors are constantly favored over the other tank classes it seems. War came out lacking a little in 4.0, and got uber buffed with shake it off, a big change in its dps mechanics, and big dps numbers. Meanwhile DRK was barely touched even though it was far behind the other two tanks. So it's easy to compare PLD to WAR to see where the class is lacking at least compared to what WAR has now coming out in Shadowbringers. WAR looks to be in a great spot heading into 5.0 and I think PLD could be right up there too if they give us one more source of mitigation (like giving us back the 20% mitigation from cover again).