Thread: Patch 3.4 Notes (Preliminary)

Originally Posted by Airget

Tanks mitigating damage as their best asset isn't exactly part of the FFXIV meta. You seem to get more out of a heavy hitting Tank that needs more healing than a Tank that can take hits giving healers time to DD. So it's natural that they want to try and give PLD that DD potential since no matter how much you add to their dmg mitigation, it's worthless if their changes don't balance the dmg output of the party to put them on par with WAR/DRK.

They're also ignoring the fact that PLD doesn't mitigate more than WAR does. It's actually a bit less.

Originally Posted by Reynhart

Is it really the only way they can think of to fix PLD ?
I don't understand...PLD is supposed to be "the tank that mitigates" and WAR, "the tank that does damage", yet all they do to make PLD more desirable is to improve its raw DPS...

While true to some extent, the real design philosophy is that PLD uses direct mitigation outside of attacks, and WAR uses attacks to mitigate. (inner beast and blood bath being examples, where you need to land an attack, in order to perform, where PLD has far more moves that dont require you to attack to do them.) Their increased DPS was more so a mistake in their design in the OT position, before tank swaps became a thing.

I think they were too focused on giving people what they wanted for the expansion (a DPS stance and DPS moves for that stance), they sorta over jumped their mark.

Originally Posted by Lisotte

Realised I'm probably not going to be able to go into Creator Savage day 1 what with the 245 ilvl requirement

You don't need to meet the item level if you queue as a full party, so just use party finder for the first few days.

Originally Posted by Airget

Tanks mitigating damage as their best asset isn't exactly part of the FFXIV meta. You seem to get more out of a heavy hitting Tank that needs more healing than a Tank that can take hits giving healers time to DD. So it's natural that they want to try and give PLD that DD potential since no matter how much you add to their dmg mitigation, it's worthless if their changes don't balance the dmg output of the party to put them on par with WAR/DRK.

You have other means to do it than just a flat out potency increase.
For example, they could have increased their mitigation kit to lessen the need for tank stance, thus increasing the personal DPS. But I admit it would have kept PLD as an "MT".
I wonder if it will be interesting to have a PLD as an OT and a WAR as MT now, since PLD's gap between ShO and SwO is widen again.