Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
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No I went over it, you shouldn't even be constantly saving up 100 oath for shelltron/interventions in case of a double tank buster, is the issue I don't actually think you understand how Paladin works if you generally think that's the case, in reality PLD's always going to have access at least for themselves, again No tank really "needs" you to intervention them generally speaking but it's a nice bonus to have if you know a double tank buster is coming, PLD because of two stacks is generally more free then other tanks.
Unless you already have the gear, to survive the double tankbusters, PLD must give their buddy Intervention, receive their buddy's skill (Heart of Corundum, Nascent Flash, etc), and use Sheltron. In addition to Rampart or Sentinel (possibly both, if we're talking about crafted ilvls.) This means their buddy doesn't have their own defensive skill (it has to be given to the PLD), which is why you have to use Intervention. The reason for all of this is because you can't block dots, and Abyssos brought in a heavy dot with each tankbuster.

Technically, you could just yell healers adjust and the healers could probably handle it, but this would probably involve some GCD healing, and that's a raid DPS loss. Meanwhile, you can do the above and no DPS is lost. I think PLD is okay once they already have that raid gear, but if you're progging, you either force your healers to sacrifice DPS or you have to stock 100 gauge for the dual tankbusters.

FWIW, PLD is also quite weak in DSR. The friends I watched were running GNB/WAR, so I don't have any... secondhand? experience here, but from what I've heard, PLD struggles a lot in certain phases while the other tanks are completely fine. This, on top of having very low DPS.