PLD vs WAR: testing

[Hyrist]

What you guys fail to realize is that soloing is a completely pointless test. In solo mode, PLD can Protect and Stoneskin itself. So that gives that to PLD over WAR, but in a pty situation, WAR will have that -

- at the expense of another party member. The Solo trial makes a good point that you chose to overlook.

The fact that PLD can self-apply should not be overlooked simply because a warrior can delegate damage mitigation to someone else in the same fashion PLD can delegate damage dealing to someone else.

What people are forgetting here is that there is a party structure shift that could be build around this.

A Warrior Set up defers to 2 WHMs and relies upon the Warrior to make up the damage differential.

A Paladin setup defers to a second hybrid or damage class rather than a second WHM.

If SE can make this exchange more common and easily functional for all circumstances then there won't be an argument - and both the fundamentals and the functions are both there, as evidenced by PLDs INNATE damage reduction.

A couple things that could assist in this is a much lower interrupt rate for GLD, and either a higher means of MP regeneration, or a larger base MP pool for them.