PLD GLOW/AURA?

[Ercapote]

simple. War has a really cool WRATH animation that seems like he's turning SUPERSAYAN, DRK has a cool Dark GLOW that show that you are emanating darkness out of you before they will even had this dark flames around then witch if they did still having it it would have been amazing....meanwhile PLD it just as boring as the class "my opinion."

PLD are supposed to be the "magical" class of the tank DRK being his opposite yet WAR looks more magical than PLD. so the question is, WHY pld does not have a glow/aura?
seriously some time I think SE hate pally and this is not a rant just to add up with all the other problems regarthing PLD is just something that I saw from another poster in another threat and I just want to know peoples's opinion or ideas for a glow/aura for pld

[Tadus]

Yea mang PLD should be a holy knight not just a regular old boring stick with a shield

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

PLD are supposed to be the "magical" class

Paladins are Elite Guards of the Sultana in this games lore, not magic/holy knights. That said, They should have an aura on some of their buffs I think.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Paladin

[Ercapote]

Paladins are Elite Guards of the Sultana in this games lore, not magic/holy knights. That said, They should have an aura on some of their buffs I think.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Paladin

nanana don't give me that, I did had to lvl up a conjurer to get my PLD and we do in fact do have magic abilities like Clemency, the oaths, flash, we can cast cures and stone skins even protects... so PLD are magical tanks... on this FF and on every FF they just manage to make it the worst time of PLD of all ff, cannot even block magic that IMO a SHIELD should block more than a GreatSword when it comes to magic, idk where but i remember a knight covering himself from a fire breathing dragon with the shield to block the fire from burning him, which is not such a difficult concept to think about when it comes to block.

[Sorax]

I would actually like for them to change the stance animations. Maybe make our weapon/ shield glow and also make a seperate animation for shield/sword.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

nanana don't give me that, ..

I'm not saying PLD doesn't have magic abilities / skills, I'm saying they don't have the title of "The Magical, Holy Protectors of the Realm". They're Bodyguards. Once again though. . . PLD needs to glow more.

[Ercapote]

I'm not saying PLD doesn't have magic abilities / skills, I'm saying they don't have the title of "The Magical, Holy Protectors of the Realm". They're Bodyguards. Once again though. . . PLD needs to glow more.

you manage to make PLD even worse looking lmao, the are "holy knight of the sultan....something" that's how i will describe them I know in their definition says they are bodyguards but that's just boring.

[Jonnycbad]

They could make our sword glow whiteish though it may conflict with weapon glow effects already present on the weapon/shield. Still, I think Oaths should have some kind of pale white radiance. Maybe shield oath can have a glow, with angel feather particle effects, and sword oath can have a whiteish flame effect.

Also, pretty sure the intro PLD level 30 quest refers to "Amongst the elite soldiers, swordsmen gladiators and knights of Ul'dah, the Paladins are unmatched" (paraphrased). I unlocked PLD recently, and I remember reading how PLD=Knight in JP, and when I saw this cutscene I wondered if it was translated differently, since if in JP PLD=Knight, the sentence wouldn't make sense unless there was some distinction between regular old Knights, and the Knight job that the WoL becomes. PLD was used in FF4 and FFT as a distinct class apart from regular Knights...I wonder why they went with a vanilla knight with FFXI and FFXIV (though, FFXI's PLDs were far more Holy than FFXIV's PLD, even though they too were called 'naito' in JP. In FFXI, PLD could use most White Magic, Cure I-IV, Holy, Protect, Shell, and also had unique spells like Enlight which added a a potent, but gradually decreasing additional damage effect to every autoattack, and Reprisal, which increased shield block rate substantially, and automatically reflected a portion of blocked damage back at the target for the spell's duration).

[Xenosan]

I think an aura is justifiable for Divine Veil, it would serve as a visual indicator for healers: see a blue-white aura on the PLD? Toss him a heal to trigger the Veil buff.

And that's just assuming Divine Veil is otherwise not altered. If it were, regardless I think the heal-trigger effect is the right place for an aura, since it's about providing visual communication to other players, and not just a glamour-glitter-moar-sparkles-plz, I must look fabulous.

[Ercapote]

visual indicator might also be applied to indicate when we are in sword oath and shield oath will help indicate healers what stances we are on so they can prepare heals accordingly to our stances, which can just be use with the help of a macro but still I wouldn't mind a visual indicator for that.