Quote Originally Posted by GTK0HLK View Post
Yet are they priced the exact same as all other tome items(?), except you pay twice(?). Once for the Sword, once for the shield, ending with double the cost and Needing the same amount of Special Tomestone(from raids).(?)

Aren't Said Weaponry now a days sold as a coffered unit on the market board.(?)


I don't get what conception there is with this paladin tax?

First I ever hear of it(Then again, I ain't specifically looking for it, if it exist. But I guess I heard it now, regardless if it's Accurate or not. From you)
It was more a problem before with loot drops since you could get the sword, but not the shield and vice-versa. Though, they are still separate crafted items and are listed separately on the marketboard and different amounts of supply. E.g, on my server is the Diadochos PLD sword is 70k which is line with 70-100k for most of the weapons, but the shield is another 60k on top of that, making the PLD with its sword+shield combination the most expensive of the jobs by about 30%. That's where I come up with the concept of the PLD tax. That's been a fairly consistent experience for me.

That said, my original point didn't really include the "tax" as a critical point because I don't think it is. To me, the issue is a matter of having this weird one-off that requires a lot of weird little one-off things in the various bits of UI. Shields are classified as both armor and weapon. They appear in the weapon area when upgrading, but the weapon tab of the armor area in another. At this point I'm simply re-iterating my previous points and if those aren't compelling, it's fine to just say, "yeah, it never bothered me".