Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Gserpent]

What kinda backwards defeatist logic is this?

Call it whatever you'd like. I call it pragmatism. If you actually think that we're not getting something equivalent to WAR, you're on full copium. PLD is going to look like WAR, more or less, after a major rework, with likely Req being the candidate for the changes to become our Inner Release. It's possible it will be patterned more after GNB, but I don't think it's likely. Yoshida very explicitly said that they would be moving forward with "5.0 design" during LL's leading up to EW and we've seen proof of that in the class changes so far. It's absurd to think they'll make an exception for a class that's underperforming on both DPS and durability.

100% agree to this.
Especially with these forced downtime mechanic's in savage.
Someone got hit by something not fatal but the healer are on the other side of the arena, clemency and nothing happened.
Someone dodged a healer have more important things to do then to look on others HP, Clemency.

Not everything needs to be a useful dmg GCD, verity and situational save's is one part what makes PLD fun to play.

If someone got hit by an effect but are away from a healer, they do not need healing - they will be completely fine for the half a second it takes for them to get back in range of the healer. Raid damage is rigidly scripted. There will be no "unexpected" damage they take otherwise. If you're not talking about savage or ultimate, then it doesn't matter anyway since you quite literally don't even need a full 8 player party to clear those unless they have some kind of body check gimmick that's also an instant death if failed - I can't think of any normals that qualify there.

If it's forced downtime, then the healers literally have nothing else to do. It's not like healing is in short supply.

If you are actually trying to Clemency someone so that the healer "doesn't have to check their HP"... dude. You're probably aggravating your healers. Cut it out. If you want to heal, play a healer. Paladin is not a healer.