Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
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.