PLD and sks

[Februs]

I just still want GLD to be the tactical speed-hitting tank who feels more dual-wield-y (Sword & Board) than a Rogue does... Sadly, TP generation oversights and unwillingness to meaningfully revisit class/job designs will make that impossible.

I couldn't agree more. There were a lot of early indicators that Gld was going in a different direction from Pld. I was really hoping for a much faster kit which placed more emphasis on build up, prepping, and alternating between the sword and shield, but Pld's kit totally destroyed that idea. Unsustainable Tp consumption practically cripples the job and has been a festering nightmare for a very long time now (on top of Pld's numerous other deficiencies). I'd really like to hope that SE might, someday, do something about it, but their last set of adjustments made it pretty clear that they'll never actually make any real and committed efforts to fix the job. The fact that they called those changes "major adjustments" was a pretty big kick in the nuts to that job. It would have been funny, if it wasn't so pathetic and sad.