Thread: 3.1 PLD Changes

Originally Posted by Brian_

Q: A lot of those voices are probably from players in savage Alexander where there is a high reliance on tank DPS.

Yoshida: We'll be making effort to eliminate that as much as possible. Within the content, there are strong and weak points to each job. For example, in the second area of savage, a paladin main tank should have higher stability than a dark knight.

I immediately dismissed anything that came out of his mouth after that....HONESTLY, does he even play this game at all? Dark Knights are on equal footing with Paladins in almost every single way. In fact, the ever growing general consensus is that Dark Knight is just a re-skinned Paladin that can now do damage. It's absolute bullshit that people somehow think a Dark Knight would be worthless without a shield in more physical fights like Second Coil of Bahamut. I was watching Arthars yesterday and he did two random party finders of Second Coil and Final Coil. Guess what his party composition was for T9.....two DRK, two AST, three DRG and a BLM. They did better than almost every single DF group I've ever seen and most of the PF groups I've been in. Guess what his composition was for T13 when he initially tried it.....two DRK, two SCH, three DRG and I can't remember the last dps role. They did fantastic there too considering the composition of the party, they never beat it, but again, better than almost every single DF group I've been in.....

'We can't just make adjustments to jobs based on whether they are strong or weak in particular content as that would break the jobs...' WOW. Again, does he even play this game at all? There's never an instance you where you worry about Warrior being garbage and exclude them because they're actually designed properly after 2.1. The content doesn't rule them, EVER. They are just as healthy in a MT position as they are OT. I can not believe that the community is fine with this lip service bullshit "content doesn't fit every job" for anything other than Warrior. In the content where there's so much incoming damage that it destroys a tanks cooldowns.....guess what else is gonna' be a mechanic in that content.....tank swaps (T13, T9 Savage, Ifrit Ex, Titan Ex, T11, T12 anyone?)

The two questions that will be asked in EVERY SINGLE ENCOUNTER are "can you survive tank busters?" and "can you do enough damage to kill the thing?" These questions are tied explicitly to what the job can do based on the content. Content should never be designed around a job that's found to be underperforming in previous encounters because it will only put more emphasis on your weakest designed class needing to be propped up and turned into gilded excrement (a gold plated turd.) This is the ENTIRE reason Paladin is in the shape it's in right now. They've done this shit over and over and over again instead of re-doing the job. Does anyone remember the time they buffed Flash TWICE because the first time didn't help enough.........Band aid fixes. This game is headed down a dark road if they keep making content to suit particular jobs instead of along side them.