Quote Originally Posted by Ashkendor View Post
...and we're going to try the DRK as MT this next week and see how things go.
By my understanding, this should help quite a bit. PLD suffers more than any other tank from staying in their tank stance right now, and our DPS in Shield Oath is pitiful. However, when you compare parses of PLD and DRK in their DPS stances, they're very close to even.

The biggest problem is that A3S and A4S are such huge DPS checks that any time a PLD needs to stay in Shield Oath is going to be a detriment. But this isn't a problem with the job so much as it is a problem with the design of the encounters. Low tank damage + huge DPS race = hell for PLD - and SE is realizing this. We're a square peg trying to fit round hole. We're the tank that soaks damage like no other. But the fights right now don't need that--they need tanks that can give as good as they get.

I'm sure that if the discrepancy isn't solved in 3.1 and 3.2, they'll begin to rework our numbers to fix it, but for now, they're taking baby steps (and honestly? Coming from WoW where they overcompensated for just about everything? I far prefer this approach).