Yoshi P's Stance on Pld

[Xyphon]

Apparently Yoshi P finally commented on his stance on plds:

Source is here (mind you its japanese):

http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/46326984.html

Translation by courtesy of Octopus over at BG:

YoshiP: "I don't think PLD is weak"
- PLD will continue to be the best defensive tank.
- There will be adjustments to its skills in 3.1
- Magic will never be able to be blocked
- There will be more physical attacks in raids

[Kydi]

Well that's... disappointing (that it won't change until 3.1).

At least the meta sounds like it might mix damage types in the future, so perhaps PLD won't be quite so hampered.

[Alahra]

I'm surprised they aren't making adjustments prior to 3.1, since they've already adjusted several classes. Is their internal data showing that PLDs are used more than MNKs and ASTs were prior to their buffs? Or are they planning major skill adjustments? Most of the adjustments so far have been fairly minor (with AST receiving the largest number of adjustments).

[Seku]

I'm surprised they aren't making adjustments prior to 3.1, since they've already adjusted several classes. Is their internal data showing that PLDs are used more than MNKs and ASTs were prior to their buffs? Or are they planning major skill adjustments? Most of the adjustments so far have been fairly minor (with AST receiving the largest number of adjustments).

The chances of PLD getting major buffs are very slim. I'm betting their probably going to increase hate generation from weapon skills on the RoH combo string. and maybe a bump to shield swipe.

I could be wrong. But that's my bet.

[Kerwin]

The chances of PLD getting major buffs are very slim. I'm betting their probably going to increase hate generation from weapon skills on the RoH combo string. and maybe a bump to shield swipe.

I could be wrong. But that's my bet.

If shield swipe was off my global cooldowns I would use it more often as extra enmity gain. But in most cases, I need to do my roh Enmity combo again just to maintain aggro on me. Coming from a full VIT PLD I don't have room to do goring blade unless I want to lose aggro. A Full VIT WAR/DRK would have no problem keeping aggro.

[Kerwin]

If shield swipe was off my global cooldowns I would use it more often as extra enmity gain. But in most cases, I need to do my roh Enmity combo again just to maintain aggro on me.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c97104f8e7308e
Shield Swipe Is now an ability and does not trigger global cooldown.
Recast time has been adjusted to 15 seconds.
Potency has been reduced from 210 to 150.

Cool, I called it!

[Hioki]

They're not weak, they're just poorly designed and implemented. I mean if they were weak we would need to make adjustments to bring them in line... oh wait.

I'm more surprised that they're going to make us wait out to 3.1. You've been bad for 4 months continue to pay us for another 2 months so you can keep playing an imbalanced job. By then, everyone would have made the jump to WAR and DRK or simply quit that we won't even need the changes because all the complaints stopped. *Class balance*

Do we even have job/role leads? If not, This is the reason we need someone dedicated to provide reasonable feedback to.

[Tadus]

Thank you for the translation. I am a happy PLD now that i know that there will be changes

[SwordCoheir]

They're not weak

I kinda agree, the power is there, but it lacks a few things that give PLD's competitors an edge. Like even though Flash scales with attack power, it doesn't scale with DPS abilities like with DRK/WAR's AoE's meaning hate generation will be static and has no room for growth during battle, which would be great if there were any mobs that had super high damage reduction (like old school Irion Giants) to make the static enmity generation useful. Second, PLD doesn't really bring anything to the table that benefits the party, the few abilities they do have (Cover, Divine Veil, STR down) are quirky and situational. Don't get me wrong they're good, but nothing is consistent, not all mobs use Physical AoE's/attacks religiously and many favor magical abilities end-game, but damage down is consistent across the board.

I could probably go on but you get the idea.

[Syzygian]

They're not weak, they're just poorly designed and implemented.

No, raids are poorly designed and implemented. This entire tier has made one tank OP in the truest sense of the term, another tank viable because of the power of a single cooldown and marginally better DPS, and the third tank almost completely ignored.

If they are going to fix their raid design to make DPS, healing, and tanking checks equally important, great. If not, they don't need to buff PLD or DRK (if they buff DRK, PLDs will cry louder, if they buff PLD, it'll overtake DRK), they need to nerf WAR.