Thread: 3.1 PLD Changes

Originally Posted by RecklessLion

The cries are real right now......All PLD needs is more emnity and better AoE besides heck no dps boost. That's dumb they're the tankiest of all tanks giving them dps would make them OP. Content don't match, other problem a 3rd tank added so they got kicked sorta say. Anyhow I hope the tank dps isn't balanced or any of that. It would make the tank selection boring and almost pointless in choosing.

What? With the current meta of magic tank busters, DRK is sitting pretty as far as mitigation. WAR is quite well equipped to handle frequent spike damage. PLD doesn't offer a whole lot above and beyond either one aside from 10 seconds out of every 7 minutes.

The fact of the matter is, nobody would really care if PLD was better at mitigation than the other two tanks unless the other two tanks couldn't survive the mechanics at all, and that would just be replacing one problem with a completely different problem instead of solving it. Right now, people want DPS and that's where PLD falls woefully short of the other two. Maybe this will change in 3.2, maybe it won't; we have no way of knowing what kind of 'adjustments' SE has in mind for tanking in general, but right now PLD is in a very bad spot.