Thread: 4.0 tank buff ability changes, please don't do this

Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon

The way Yoshida phrased the changes, makes me think the other cross class skills will be Dark Mind, and Foresight.
The way he switched into mentioning a tank needing to pick between physical mitigation or magical mitigation, when talking about changes to rampart/cross class skills, makes me think he's going to focus on giving each tank phsyical and magical mitigation, seperated, so the tank has to actively choose, and since they will all do this, place it in cross class skill list.
(Foresight/Dark Mind being the only examples I can think of for this, if u take 1 from the other 2 jobs)

Gasp! You think we will see options to actually customize your job's build now?

This is something I can get behind.

Originally Posted by Fernosaur

Gasp! You think we will see options to actually customize your job's build now?

This is something I can get behind.

-snerk-
I doubt it. If there aren't many good options, you just have to pick the mandatory few. If there are many good options, you'll have to change your cross-class skills before every dungeon/boss to accommodate it. Hopefully the process can be macro'd in the latter case.

Originally Posted by Zojha

-snerk-
I doubt it. If there aren't many good options, you just have to pick the mandatory few. If there are many good options, you'll have to change your cross-class skills before every dungeon/boss to accommodate it. Hopefully the process can be macro'd in the latter case.

Oh I know. It would basically be reduced to "how much physical or magical damage does this fight demand? = Take X," BUT, on the bright side, it would actually fix some of the balance problems plaguing PLD right now if they did that, at least the ones that relate to magical damage mitigation, which still haunts PLD to this day.

If this kind of different choices for playstyle were available for all classes without incredibly obvious choices (like SMNs having to choose between Raging Strikes and Hawk's Eye, for example), it would add a TINY bit of variety to a horribly stiff game, though, and that's something that I would enjoy.