Don't change Paladin.

[Agner]

Despite not personally enjoying PLD all that much, it really is unfortunate that it will likely be reworked so it can be squashed in line with everything else.

I have mostly played fairly casually with most of my raiding/exs being around arr/hw/sb, though the leaning in recent years towards strict two minute burst windows feels like it's been incredibly destructive when it comes to job design and creativity. It is sad to see.

[Elizasylen]

PLD is getting a rework. Its as clear as day.

I’d like to see the job fantasy preserved at very least.

[Zarkovitch]

Just accept the changes. The current job cannot survive with 2 min burst meta.Only one is surviving is blm due to the fact there no challenger on caster.

[Elizasylen]

Just accept the changes. The current job cannot survive with 2 min burst meta.Only one is surviving is blm due to the fact there no challenger on caster.

with enough potency anything can survive. Just like BLM. Just be the strong independent tank that needs no synergy.

[Guhthaerz]

If paladin needs a rework for anything, it's the class/job quest storyline.

I volunteer to write it.

[Lustre]

If they change paladin to be the same as the other tanks I'll probably quit. If I wanted to play a boring ass 2 min burst job, theres like 20 of them already. I gravitate towards paladin because the rotation is actually a rotation, and not "dump everything in one go under buffs and then 123123 for minutes at a time".
It has high carry potential which allows for some neat saves if you, let's say use req stats to save someone who's about to die with Clem because the healers brains are absent. Cover needs changing but thats it. Everything else is fine.

But part of me thinks itll happen anyway. There's a future with every job being a carbon copy in design and timers of every other job, with the exception of Black Mage, of course.

[Elizasylen]

If paladin needs a rework for anything, it's the class/job quest storyline.

I volunteer to write it.

Oh yes please. I love how they are just like. Paladin stuff sucks, bring back gladiator plot.

[Guhthaerz]

Oh yes please. I love how they are just like. Paladin stuff sucks, bring back gladiator plot.

I think what really crippled the quests was how tied down they were to Ul'dah politics, and considering how big a role those played in late Post-ARR and HW, nothing major could really happen in the paladin quests.

Ideally, I think it should've broken off from the Sultansworn early on and immediately gotten to the free paladin stuff. Solkzagl should've taken Jenlyns' place as the primary job mentor. I think this basis alone could fix the plot IMMENSLY and make it similar to say, the samurai quests.

[Undeadfire]

with enough potency anything can survive. Just like BLM. Just be the strong independent tank that needs no synergy.

Blm is timed around raid buffs and hardcore raid teams pad around it for max potential.

Paladin? Not a chance. Job is garbage for raids, Mch tier.

[Shikiseki]

Pretty sick of that 2minute burst show craze, it ruined almost all jobs already due to this and PLD is quite frankly next in line... enjoy requiescat being on a 120s timer and double it's potency during it - gg "rework"

(excuse the annoyed tone but this 2minute thing just ruins all the battle content fun for me lately...)