Could Paladin please have something else to manage or think about added to the job?

[velswen]

As it stands the job is just 1-2-3 combo then press the buttons that light up. There are no resources to manage, no timers to keep track off, DoTs to refresh, buffs to maintain, nothing.

It was fun previously when we had to at least be conscious of maintainig a DoT with different combo enders, or we could pool uses of Atonement for buffs. But none of that exists anymore.

Paladin might be one of the hardest jobs in the next expansion due to the difficulty of staving off sleep while playing.

[Absurdity]

As it stands the job is just 1-2-3 combo then press the buttons that light up. There are no resources to manage, no timers to keep track off, DoTs to refresh, buffs to maintain, nothing.

It was fun previously when we had to at least be conscious of maintainig a DoT with different combo enders, or we could pool uses of Atonement for buffs. But none of that exists anymore.

Paladin might be one of the hardest jobs in the next expansion due to the difficulty of staving off sleep while playing.

They took a page out of their Warrior design book, that's what happened to the Paladin rework.

[Keichi]

Na, that is not completly true.

Whe have a gauge to managing.
But, 2/3 of that skills are only to protect teammates (the reason, why i like paladin the most, from the tanks -even, when Gunblade and Warrior are more nice from gameplay-).

It would be nice to have a other thing, for solo content (or, when you dont need to protect someone), but the question would be what kind of thing.
Most stuff is used up for protection skill. The others for making him a spellsword.

A new gauge would probably only work with a new finisher (like with Nastrond from drg).
Or a new combo, similary to the Unlimited blade work.

[Iedarus]

I want old Goring Blade back.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Personally for PLD I'd like a buff to the invuln cd since it's so stupidly long and for cover to get some of it's utility back so it can be used in more situations again like how it could before they changed it. Having something like that which was unique to PLD was really cool. I don't care at all about getting the old goring blade back.

[4clubbedace]

Personally for PLD I'd like a buff to the invuln cd since it's so stupidly long and for cover to get some of it's utility back so it can be used in more situations again like how it could before they changed it. Having something like that which was unique to PLD was really cool. I don't care at all about getting the old goring blade back.

yeah the think about busters is its generally "you survive or you dont" so i dont feel pld should be taxed as heavy for an invuln when the other "not as good" of the other 3 are inheretly better because you could sue them more, they could shave a minute off the cd and itd be more usable

[Rithy255]

As it stands the job is just 1-2-3 combo then press the buttons that light up. There are no resources to manage, no timers to keep track off, DoTs to refresh, buffs to maintain, nothing.

It was fun previously when we had to at least be conscious of maintainig a DoT with different combo enders, or we could pool uses of Atonement for buffs. But none of that exists anymore.

Paladin might be one of the hardest jobs in the next expansion due to the difficulty of staving off sleep while playing.

I think you listed like 80% of the jobs in this game lol.

[NegativeS]

I think you listed like 80% of the jobs in this game lol.

Yeah, WAR, PLD, GNB, every Healer, and multiple DPS suffer from this issue, which means it's an issue with the deeper design philosophy of whoever dredged up EW class design.

[Rithy255]

Yeah, WAR, PLD, GNB, every Healer, and multiple DPS suffer from this issue, which means it's an issue with the deeper design philosophy of whoever dredged up EW class design.

This tbh, if you look at every job change from EW > Shb it shows that it's not just a Paladin issue, the reason why Paladin is a good example is because pre 6.3 it actually had some level of depth, The issue was that 6.3 PLD wasn't a EW Design as from shb > ew it hardly changed, PLD's rework was a EW design that took out a core feature of PLD... The second combo finisher & separate bursts which gave the job a lot of depth, but they removed both so it could fit under EW design making the job into what we have today.

War is another example of a job that while was already super easy in shb got "ew design treatment" removing gauge management and just merging Raw Int and Nascent into this CD that does both and better, instead of choosing between a "heal" and a mitigation... It's clear that even the "ez" jobs get effected and have what little was to them took away.

for DPS, Just look at the new designs and it tells you the same story, Rpr is known for being so bare bones for a melee, Summoner the biggest rework is known for being the most easy job in the game by a mile, It's a clear pattern.

Even for healer design which is already a mess in itself, it's clear that Sage is just a more upgraded flashy scholar, Healer design has been broken for longer though... I think thats a fault of SHB healer design, At least other jobs in SHB while not the best their was still stand out jobs that were pretty tricky to master.

DT also shows the same patterns, BLM, DRG and Monk are both getting a lot of the "jank" took away for more simple and easy to understand mechs... I don't think it's just PLD it's pretty much most jobs at this point, We're gonna have very set jobs that fall under raid buffs (which have all been made even more the same because they're all 20s) It's just very obvious on how its a entire issue with the actual design rather then just PLD.

Every job is gonna make you fall asleep because complexity isn't allowed, it might upset someone if they do a tiny bit less damage for not knowing the job in depth.

[velswen]

I think you listed like 80% of the jobs in this game lol.

Other jobs at least have gauges to manage, timers to think about, something. It's true many of these things have been removed, but Paladin feels like a particularly egregious example at the moment. It's especially frustrating because it HAD some of these elements in Endwalker, and they removed them in 6.3