Quote Originally Posted by Destous View Post
You're ignoring all the objectively bad aspects of PLD compared to DRK and WAR. The boon of PLD is supposed to be better mitigation because of shield block, but it seems to matter less and less as DRK and WAR are just as easy to heal. Add to that, that our "not dying right now" CD is completely overpowered, and gets slammed with a 7min CD because of it compared to WAR and DRK who only see a 3/5min CD on their anti-death CDs; there's pros and cons obviously, but the availability within a single run is nothing that should be overlooked.

Then there's the QoL issues as well. PLDs have almost non-existent AoE damage, both stances are on the GCD, no buff built into our class to mitigate tank stance damage reduction (no maim or Darkside equivalent), 3 GCDs to apply a DoT, and our stun is on the GCD and costs a bucket of TP.

There's no pragmatic reason to take the PLD over a the WAR or the DRK. The shallowness of the class is catching up with it at a greater and greater speed.
Again, PLD is not far behind DRK. PLD, by how it seems, is relegated to being the simple tank which by far is true. Balance is a very tough issue to address. If PLD got huge buffs in 3.2, you will 100% see PLD being played more and DRK left to dust and DRK "mains" getting upset. It's funny because right as 3.2 dropped, people thought PLD would be better than DRK, which again isn't true at all.

And again, contents outside raid don't have huge DPS checks, so play whatever you like and stop complaining especially to the people who have never raided seriously before. These people haven't tested the jobs to their limits and all they do is either complain or give their wrong opinions and they are so adamant about it, which seriously irks me so much tbh. What sort of mentality is giving PLD the highest DPS to single target sane at all? Using Plunge first in DRK's optimal opener rotation, seriously? It's complete bonkers. AND worst of all, these players are probably those who can only do 500-700dps in DPS stance as tanks. Reminding how a MT can do 1.1k DPS and these 2 OTs in Weeping City can't even go near the 1kdps mark, total bullcrap I tell you.