Thread: WAR's 2.1 changes.

Originally Posted by FallenWings

Not necessarily anymore lol. PLD isn't as bad as people make it out to be and I hope this dumb stigma dies.

Indeed. But the changes they made to PLD were easy and bland. It's a good thing for balance, but not very interesting when it comes to job identity.

Originally Posted by FallenWings

You make a fight that is solo-tankable and you ideally want a PLD.

Why would you idealy want a PLD just because the content is doable with only one tank ? We had solo tank strat in Coil, but PLD's damage output was not that low compared to WAR. So, yes, having only a PLD to bring another DPS was a huge party-DPS boost.
Let's imagine you have a group of friends including a PLD, a DRK, a WAR, and enough DPS and healers for any setup you want. If having 2 tanks + 2 healers + 4 DPS offers the same overall DPS as 1 PLD + 2healers + 5 DPS, what make you chose PLD over the two tanks ?

The way I see it, it's not "Sorry, you can't come if you're not that job", but more "Ok, we have those jobs, let's use this setup instead of this one"

Originally Posted by FallenWings

What if you get 3 WARs but you need a PLD MT to survive a tank buster? What if you only need a WAR/DRK level mitigation in which case PLD is just a gimped tank? What if WAR/DRK want to play MT instead of sidekick OT? What if PLD wants to have some time to use his sword/white magic instead of holding his shield all the time?

You wouldn't need a PLD. All 3 tanks would still be able to "normally" tank any content. Besides, in 24-man, you're not really that picky about the jobs you have, and setups are made for one tank per party since Syrcus tower
And again, if you have to play PLD in a dual tank setu^p, then it would be the same PLD as now, since the mitigation stacks would be something you decide to use only when you really need it.