Paladin weakest Tank now

[MerlinCross]

We're in a reverse way vs Drk.

Drk is super good in most content, but isn't fun.

Pld is fun but isn't good in most content.

So what I’m hearing is “Time to level PLD”.

[Commander_Justitia]

no, you are weak

[AziraSyuren]

I mean you need 3 tanks for 24 people. Ofc it takes longer when a alliance raid comes fresh out just because all player that took a break come back and start doing the fight with whatever job they like. I also have too wait 30 mins as a dps player on new 24 man release just because more people like too go unga bunga.

Missing the point. The point is that tanks aren't unpopular, especially if you go off of alliance raids. If they were even nearly as unpopular as people seem to believe, alliance raid queues would still be near instant.

[CKNovel]

Pld is good in dungeons
Pld is good in normal raid content
Pld is okay in extrials
Pld is bad in savage raids.

PLD is bad in early savage raid, after a few weeks and more gear, the DPS check will be easier to reach and that weakness won't exist anymore.

What really bothers me is not that SE made PLD a whooping 10% weaker than other tanks. It's not that they're repeating the mistakes of Heavenward with no self-reflection.

It's the total lack of response from the dev team. Healers and tanks got zero fixes for the many very real issues in balance and playability in 6.05 while most of the DPS jobs with problems got at least some minor tweaks. What that tells me is SE doesn't care about you of you play a tank or healer, if you want them to care play a DPS. And they wonder why tanks are so rare they needed to make alliance raids solo tank parties.

They did said that PLD deserves buffs.
Also physical ranged would like to be remembered. It's BRD and nothing else, even their utility is below casters and their mobility don't help them at all.
Also a trait to reduce Tacticians cd to 90s. Tanks didn't got a trait to put their invuln on 10s and BLM sure had no trait for that second charge on triple cast.

[RyuDragnier]

PLD is bad in early savage raid, after a few weeks and more gear, the DPS check will be easier to reach and that weakness won't exist anymore.

Not to mention the devs acknowledged it's doing less damage than it needs to be, meaning a potency boost is almost guaranteed.

[Seife]

Pld will stay lowest dps in p4s with insufficient self - or raidheal to make a difference. So compared with any other tank, pld is the worst choice.

[eagledorf]

Tanks have 30 minute queues when alliance raids are new. Tanking being unpopular is a meme. It's just not true. And alliance raids, of all things, doesn't illustrate that point very well.

Tanking might have its issues but none of it is reflected in how popular they are.

Wow, 30 minutes on a 7:1 ratio content. I mean, I have had 5+ hour queues for dungeons on DPS, but wow that really shows the tank population is in a good place.

Of course it's not just things like the fact that YoshiP didn't even mention tanks or healers in his recent interview, it's also the (admittedly impossible) issue like SE dumbing down tanks to the point where enmity is barely a mechanic anymore because most players just don't want that pressure, which makes the job just feel like a weaker DPS a lot of the time.

That's a very difficult problem for developers to have to juggle. Pretending to care about balance and QoL for jobs other than DPS should be easy.

[Undeadfire]

Welp, it was discovered Paladin was bugged on it's parses, and it actually parses lower than it's actually doing.

Dropping to 600-1000 difference vs Drk.

RIP

[LittleImp]

Welp, it was discovered Paladin was bugged on it's parses, and it actually parses lower than it's actually doing.

Dropping to 600-1000 difference vs Drk.

RIP

It looks like FFLogs was improperly accounting for overwritten dots, i.e valor and goring ticking at the same time, ergo the most someone may lose is a few dot ticks over the course of the entire fight if they're playing properly.

That said, this buff still can't come soon enough.

[AziraSyuren]

I cracked up laughing for a good 10 minutes upon reading that.

gibe 6.08 soon pls