Job Tweak Suggestions Tank Roles

[Lyth]

At level 60, Unleash costs 795 MP. Flash costs 707 MP.

You don't need the option to switch oath at a moment's notice. If you need to swap following Flash spam, you'd burn through your MP leaving about 900 MP in reserve. If not, you'd just burn through it all and wait for it to regenerate with GB combos on every mob. What does it matter if you hit 0 MP on PLD? It's not like you lose 15% of your outgoing damage and lose access to a large part of your toolkit like you do on DRK. There's no comparison.

If Flash does damage, it should cost TP. That's a resource that you'd actually care about on PLD.

[Kitfox]

At level 60, Unleash costs 795 MP. Flash costs 707 MP.

You don't need the option to switch oath at a moment's notice. If you need to swap following Flash spam, you'd burn through your MP leaving about 900 MP in reserve. If not, you'd just burn through it all and wait for it to regenerate with GB combos on every mob. What does it matter if you hit 0 MP on PLD? It's not like you lose 15% of your outgoing damage and lose access to a large part of your toolkit like you do on DRK. There's no comparison.

If Flash does damage, it should cost TP. That's a resource that you'd actually care about on PLD.

Then PLD would need massively better TP management, look at everything WAR has. PLD runs out of TP way faster than the other two tanks already as it is. By far the easiest way to fix PLD would be to have a MP costing AoE in place of Flash and just balance the cost/potency properly. Yes, meta says that Clemency and Stoneskin are useless and pointless, but those are still things that can't be used if you bottom out on your mana.

The usage is exactly the same as DRK. You spam your hate AoE until you're fairly low on mp and then start cycling your mp combo. Yes, DRK has MP drain and Darkside, but those don't really change how you would use the abilities, not to mention DRK has way more tools for regenerating mana.