Quote Originally Posted by Brannigan View Post
I agree with most of what you said, with the exception of drk/pld being an invalid setup. It's just a setup that's heavily reliant on ninja prescence. This can be worked around and pld's cover also synergizes well with ninja buffing drk mt aggro and pld covering drk mt to push more raid dps. most people either don't think outside the box or dont want to bring a nin OR war to the raid and then complain their tanks can't push dps. That's like a bard or mch being expected to push top dps without a drg, it's silly and it does not mean that bard and mch need their own piercing debuffs.

I also don't agree that plds weaknesses have been showing since 2.1. PLD's could MT most fights including progression in swordoath after a warrior gave them a springboard opener(even without this, but it made way more sense for the WAR to open). Between being able to safely MT in dps stance full time, and doing more dps than war as long as a war or nin had eye up, AND having HG, pld was in a stupid op place for most of 2.1, and part of how grossly exaggerrated their current issues are is a backlash of this.

Other than that the lack of synergy is showing and the physical defense specialty is stupid when all of alex caters to magic defense, I totally agree the class is in an awkward place atm and needs some adjustments.