Thread: Patch 3.4 Notes (Preliminary)

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.

Talking to people about this before, we knew AST sheilds would get increased, when what they really need is a lower cast time to match SCH. (They were already higher than SCH)
But we talked about the changes to buffs duration, and the CD of draw.
(pretty much what happened, but stronger)

But the idea was that it was only locked to one set, so they only get longer buffs, if they are Off Healing, and not main healing.
(Which, based on WHM complaints already, would make for a great balance)

So here is my 2 cents on making the change only apply to their sheild stance, which i forget which that one is called atm.

AST now shields significantly better than an SCH, and close compared to crit Adlo. ._. (468 non crit for shield alone compared to 300 and 701 compared to 900.)

The card buffs were nice, but I'm sure we'll hear some more about it.

All the QoL fixes are amazing.

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.