PLD IS NOT BROKEN

[Deathgiver]

your forgetting that pld does not live up to the ultimate tank concept that SE told us about.

Personally I think, if you only factor in durability and hate, that PLD is great as a tank. The lower HP is made up by some very potent self preservation skills. The issue is that the party DPS suffers significantly with a PLD in party vs a WAR, especially when you have a lot of adds that need to be dealt with. Increasing the duration and/or proc. rate and/or potency of the defence down debuff would go a long ways towards making PLD more desirable for single target content by upping the dps of the rest of the party, but still doesn't address the speed difference whne there are multiple adds to deal with.

[syntaxlies]

Personally I think, if you only factor in durability and hate, that PLD is great as a tank. The lower HP is made up by some very potent self preservation skills. The issue is that the party DPS suffers significantly with a PLD in party vs a WAR, especially when you have a lot of adds that need to be dealt with. Increasing the duration and/or proc. rate and/or potency of the defence down debuff would go a long ways towards making PLD more desirable for single target content by upping the dps of the rest of the party, but still doesn't address the speed difference whne there are multiple adds to deal with.

i dont know why pld doesn't have a stance option guard/attack. low dps in guard mode with a focus on blocking.