Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
The reason why PLD's Flash does no damage is because it costs MP, rather than TP.

Making Flash do damage is a bit like making BLM's Flare cost TP instead of MP. You might as well make it cost 0 MP at that point, as it's effectively free dps with no meaningful resource cost. I know that Flash and Unleash seem to be similar superficially, but MP management is absolutely critical when playing DRK, and is absolutely trivial when playing PLD.
Whatever the reason is, it's not good enough to warrant PLD doing such utterly bad AoE dps compared to other tanks. It's not like you'll die instantly if you run out of mana for a GCD or two on DRK. Think of this way, losing your Darkside for a few seconds (usually you don't unless you're bad) is still much less of a loss than any and every Flash a PLD is forced to use (can't avoid them, even if you're not bad).

Hell, PLD could use the "free dps" since they bottom out on TP way faster than DRK anyway, and DRK has plenty of "free dps" from their mp even with better TP management.