Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
Which ones? The defense traits I've combined into Armor Mastery. The Flash traits I just rolled into Flash, which would then be a Paladin ability rather than a gladiator ability.
Cooldown is moot. An ability that makes you immune to damage is overpowered not matter how you slice it. We're not going to feel it now, but we will feel it somewhere down the road. Take it from me, who has had to deal with damage immunity holding back my favorite class on several occassions, and always being a point against my favorite class whenever I asked for buffs for said class.
The ability spread for GLA is close to even. I just gave it that proverbial kick in the rear it needed to accomodate great sword. That and I hate the downsides scythe had.
1. I was talking about having 2 great sword exclusive traits and 2 shield exclusive traits. From what I can remember, other classes don't have said issue with having to choose between which traits they want. However, if those traits did something for both shield and great sword users then I would have no problem with them.

2. The current Aegis Boon also makes you immune to damage. PLD is my favorite job as well; it's just that I feel most people would wine about sentinel being better than a 15 min move for your version of Hallowed Ground. And I guess we will agree to disagree on being immune to damage is overpowered. Though, I can see how the dev team might be nervous about any fixes to PLD because of the current Hallowed Ground. Maybe if you increased the buff length on your Hallowed Ground it wouldn't be so bad. At least make it last as long as sentinel.

3. I just said that because I feel that most people are more familiar with the FFXI DRK than DRK of the past. I know I don't speak for those people, it's just that I see more DRK posts relate to coming from a scythe class. I felt that Spellblade and RDM would be better for GLA (in its current build) than DRK.
4. I just noticed this, but you might want to change phalanx and war drum to come from block and graze.

5. I don't think flash should have a cost. People already complain about MP issues when not equipping the AF body.

6. I know this is small, but do we really need graze? It's just blocking with a weapon (great sword), which by definition is a parry. So, can't we just call it a parry instead?

Sorry if I sound hostile, I don't mean too.

Edit: Added spaces.