Quote Originally Posted by Sasagawa View Post
Its quite fun timing CDs and understanding the fight mechanics to get the most out of your tank class. is it an easy class to play ? yes but its equally a very hard class to master. you need to know what to do in every fight and you also need to know every boss mechanic including the ones you don't dodge so that when they happen you always have a back up plan. example of this is popping hallowed on titan to give healer time to raise someone "comfortably"
Seems like you're talking about Gameplay/Boss mechanics more than PLD itself here.

Sure if you want to get the most out of your class you'll have to learn what you can and can't do in specific situations but the fact that these gameplay mechanics exist doesn't mean us PLD's get to do much more than our 1-2-3 combo and pop some cooldowns when they are needed.

Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
As an example, let's take the Tonberry King. You can tank it straitgh up, with Shield Oath, using your cooldowns for grudge move.
Or you can tank it with Sword Oath to do far more DPS, pop Shield Oath for the first Grudge, go back to Sword Oath, pop Shield Oath and Rampart for the second grudge, and so on...When trying to optimize both your tanking and your DPS, that's when PLD becomes reaaally fun to play.
Since Everbody's Grudge completely ignores Shield Oath i'm not sure why you would do any of this.