How to Get Players to Love PLD Again.

[SwordCoheir]

S.Coheir, I would totally rip on you for saying that dmg output is half the enmity generation that PLD can accrue, but I know you're smarter than that. You're not the typical person I've seen so far ranting on about how PLD tanking is so weak and SE needs to overhaul the whole idea. I've agreed with you on most of your posts, so I'll just take a slight jab to the ribs for this one in saying: (bear in mind, I know XIV is nothing like XI, nor do I want it to be, I'm just bringing it up as a point)

Fair enough, I suppose I should have explained myself a little bit more on this point sense I know our damage output is pathetic. Basically with the defensive stance we would only have our spike hate abilities to generate hate with, they typically have a recast of 30 seconds or more, most wielding roughly 500-600 Enmity apiece. Keeping that in mind our DoT with auto-attacks provide maybe 10%-15% (maybe 20% in some cases) overall Enmity, with our Weaponskills making up another 20-30% Enmity from spamming Flatblade Combos every 10 seconds and Gorging/Spirits combos when the opportunity arises. Considering both Spirits and Flatblade combos have Enmity spikes attributed to them they make up a decent portion of our ability to control hate.

Now keeping that in mind, without our ability to reliably gain TP through auto-attacks there won't be as much WS spamming, even with our pathetic damage losing our ability to spam Flatblade/Spirits reliably takes out a good chunk of our threat generation, unless there was a good TP generation bonus outside of Outmaneuver on blocks to let us keep throwing WS's out, or at least a heavy Enmity bonus when you block damage with your shield to help make up for it.

I hope that clarifies what I was getting at a bit more reliably.