After 1 (arguably 2) expansions what is square trying to achieve with WAR (and PLD)?

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''Drk can clear''

It's genuinely hillarious that people are okay with one job being a direct upgrade over another.
What's perhaps even funnier is the same crowd that got job actions homogenised and streamlined by endless demand, including entire job identities.. Will cry about their job identity when you suggest another tank gets something unique that Warrior does to even the playing field.

You did not care about my job's identity. Why does yours matter?
''Dark knight needs a rework'' Is just going to be the outcome after every expansion because if we do something Warrior doesn't they get mad and every tank will get it.

in p12 the difference betwwn the top drk and top pld is literally like, 300 damage, its really not that big of a deal

I'm just tired of the favoritism honestly. WAR is being designed in a way where it feels like the developers are telling me I have to play it, because it is the best at literally everything under the sun, and is intentionally being pushed that way, and playing what I want to play is throwing.

WAR has the strongest invuln, so strong that it warps savage fights to basically downgrade the 2nd tank to a secondary DPS.
WAR has the strongest short mit, which is even stronger when applied to another target, effectively allowing you to double the amount of healing you're outputting for no real cost to yourself.
WAR has the strongest singular Raidwide mit, previously the balance behind it was DRK and GNB have literal clone skills of each other that only mit damage, with the upside of being timed mitigation rather than a shield, then they decide they should effectively nullify that advantage by giving Shake it off a Regen, which functionally does the same thing, on all damage types. And thats not even going into its ability to boost that shield further.
All the other tanks get a clone skill that is 30% mit, WAR gets bonus reflect damage on theirs


Dark Knight and Paladin cant benefit from skill speed due to being mixed attackers? Tough. GNB struggling to keep all of its buttons inline due to its endwalker additions? Who cares.
WAR isn't getting damage buffs on its Inner Release free crit attacks from crit buffs? HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE WE GOTTA REDO HOW THAT ENTIRE SYSTEM WORKS.

PLD falls so far behind that we have to rework it for being inherently incompatible with EW's gameplay? Eughhh fine but we better give WAR some more attention and make sure SIO remains superior to veil because it has to be.

Like I'm fine with the job having advantages, but it can't EVERY advantage, and if it is EVERY advantage, it shouldn't also be topping the DPS charts.
And if you are going to make a mandatory Omni-job of everything, can it at least be more fun and engaging to play rather than Fell Cleave & Fell Cleave Accessories?

the crit change wasnt because of war, it was because of samurai, their auto crit change is what made the system of auto crit benefitting from party crit buffs change,