Thread: PLD 4.0

Originally Posted by Brian_

Because PLD was niche in that it was the only low DPS, low magic-mitigation tank.

Again, the problem with PLD is not that it has personal low DPS. It's that it offers nothing relevant to the raid to compensate for that.

Looking only at personal DPS is like saying BRD is a bad job because its numbers are lower than other DPS.

Originally Posted by Brian_

But, by doing so, you are just falling back into the current meta where anything over that baseline is sacrificed for more DPS.

Unless they design content where killing the ennemy is not the goal, everything above the minimum will always be sacrificed for more DPS. Solo tank or solo heal strats alredy existed for First Coil, as well as STR speced tanks, especially for that. With this idea, you sacrifice a second tank to gain a fifth DPS.

Originally Posted by Brian_

And, if all you cared about was casual content, then none of this discussion needs to happen.

What really set high-tier content from other content is not the difficulty, it's the choice. In Duty Finder, you'll end up with random jobs and random players, so, you don't have to design several strats to clear it. In Savage or early Extreme Primals, you can chose your setup and it will change how you manage the fight. You can specifically try a solo tank Ravana (Or even a solo tank Bismarck, with this kind of stacking defensive buff), so it could be interesting to design jobs around these different strats.

And if different strats result in approximately the same clear time, there's no balance issue.