Thread: How would they fix PLD 4.0?

I am honestly getting tired of all this "Paladin is broken" stuff. Paladin was Never broken and still isn't. The savage raid at the time was just poorly tuned towards Paladin and their dps was slightly underwhelming. A1S and A4S was designed specifically for Drk to shine because of the frequent magical tankbusters, HOWEVER was still possible for Pld to accomplish. The world first a2s clear used a Pld even with the lack of AoE damage they possessed because Cover and Hallowed were busted for that fight. a3s would have used Pld provided they got their 3.2 dps buff from the start. The only reason they chose Drk was because of the increased DPS capability. Come Midas and the DPS buffs, Pld dominated over Drk and many people exclaiming for a Drk buff.

If you want a job that was truly broken, look at War from 2.0, the only mitigation it had was Foresight, which was largely underwhelming, and arguably Thrill of Battle, Vengeance only had the counter damage, Inner Beast healed for 300% damage rather than mitigating 20% for 6s, Holmgang did not prevent you from going below 1hp and the healing benefit from Defiance was tied to their stacks, meaning that if the Warrior used Inner Beast, they would heal themselves for a small amount and then lose all extra healing from healers. In 2.0 Warrior was so broken it could not even clear the harder duties, they would constantly die to tankbusters because they had no mitigation. This was promptly fixed in 2.1 to make them actually useful in some capacity. Paladin in 3.0 was never that broken.

Come Sword Oath discussion: Yes, SwO is the most boring DPS stance, however it is the most powerful one. With all melee DPS and Tanks, Auto Attacks do approximately 20% of their DPS on all occasions. Sword Oath ticks, do 70% of the damage of an Auto Attack, and hence increases Auto Attack DPS from 20% to 34% (not even including the 15% increase from dropping Shield Oath)

So please. Stop Saying Paladin is broken. It is the weakest for DPS yes, but not by much. What is not broken does not need to be fixed.

There's no escaping the fact that "Paladin is broken" .