Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
>Make the Job Fun at early levels, Holy spirit, Divine might and even req could be moved down.
This is one thing I'd really like to see. PLD used to be "gets okay at 54." Now, it's "gets maybe okayish at 64."

Personal accordant pipedream wishlist (still fairly spitball):
  • Revert Goring Blade. No, DoTs aren't especially interesting in themselves outside of cleave situations and syncing to other means of providing the same DoT, but at least it has those two aspects by endgame (still more than any other buff or CD-based combo) atop the usual variety created by having multiple combo finishers.
  • Make Circle of Scorn a bit more interesting. I particularly don't care how. Desync it from Spirit's Within, such as by putting it on a 20s CD. Maybe go the DoT route and have it refresh Goring Blade. Maybe have it spread Goring Blade from any targets thus afflicted, splitting its duration across all enemies afflicted. Or maybe it just reduces their damage dealt per attack, by a flat amount (as per "Scorn," -- begone peasant, with your peasant blows). Just, something.

  • Remove the gauge cost of Cover. Reduce its CD. Eventually grant it a second charge.

  • Nerf Divine Magic Mastery II, or even remove it. It's almost wholly rigid in its timing, which leaves the player very little agency for/in optimizing it. Use other means of providing that sustain value per minute.

  • By all means, bring back the %HP dependence on Sword Oath, but have it heal for cure potency equal to twice the potency lost when using it at lower %HP.

  • Have filler/situational spells not cancel combos. That means Clemency, Holy Spirit, Holy Circle, Shield Bash, and Atonement.

  • Change the resource granted by Royal Authority from "Sword Oath" to "Holy Oath," and have it additionally offer some vastly empowered use for Shield Bash (e.g., dealing additional damage based on damage mitigated by Shelltron or Bulwark within the last 4 seconds, with fall-off AoE). OR: Allow Shelltron to generate Shield Oath, perhaps usable for an oGCD Clemency or an empowered Shield Bash, while Sword Oath would offer a second combo-finisher replacement (e.g., for Goring Blade, with Atonement and that new skill [Redemption?] replacing their accordant finishers while available and while Goring/Royal themselves are not combo-readied).

  • Have Confiteor replace Requiescat while the latter is on cooldown. OR: Have all PLD spells spend up to 100% more MP to have 50% additional potency and up to 100% reduced cast time based on the PLD's current %MP, reduce MP generation slightly, and simply have Requiescat cause the next 4 spells to be cast as if at 100% MP.

  • Either consolidate Shelltron and Intervention (e.g., into just "Aegis Boon"), or differentiate those on-demands and allow both to be used on both self and allies (with one perhaps being more of a flat eHP increase and the other percentile).

  • Ideally, have Oath Gauge also incur some benefit from mitigation, healing, and/or the like, to make its generation feel at least a bit more interactive.

Now, is that an awful lot of benefit for PLD? Sure. But the same could be simultaneously done for the other tanks, too.