Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
Exactly why Shied swipe is the absolute worst move to modify out of all of Pld's skill set. It has to be proc'd to be used. This means that changing the effect of Shield Swipe would be severely limiting the utility of Pld's. For one, to even use it you basically must be MT. It's for this reason that Shield Swipe was never considered a good way of maintaining TP. OT Pld's are constantly screwed, and that's crap. Any changes made should consider the possibility of Pld OT'ing as well as the possibility that the boss simply doesn't attack physically (A4, anyone?). Not to mention the fact that you would be basing a large part of Pld utility on random chance. I disagree with that on principle. Whatever changes they make should be based on player skill, not luck.
It was a good idea to adjust that move as they did. DRK & WAR have specific DPS boosts for when they are getting hit or when they're in tank stance to improve MT DPS. This finally brings something like that to the PLD to close the DPS gap a little while tanking.

If there was a problem, it's that there weren't more adjustments.