Thread: DualShocker Interview - 3.5 pt 2 next week, supposedly

http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/...ments-paladin/

Key Points:

- Kugane will be as large as Ishgard, seamless, and the buildings will be "surprisingly" climbable

- Paladin will have an increase in specifically magic defense, as well as physical

- Storyline should be just as good as Heavensward, and will have more voice acting

- 3.5 part 2 (which i'm assuming is 3.56?) was said to be 2 weeks away from the time of the interview, which was a week from now, so supposedly the patch is coming next week.

Originally Posted by RaijinSupreme

http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/...ments-paladin/

Key Points:

- Kugane will be as large as Ishgard, seamless, and the buildings will be "surprisingly" climbable

- Paladin will have an increase in specifically magic defense, as well as physical

- Storyline should be just as good as Heavensward, and will have more voice acting

- 3.5 part 2 (which i'm assuming is 3.56?) was said to be 2 weeks away from the time of the interview, which was a week from now, so supposedly the patch is coming next week.

Surprisingly climbable? Platforming gameplay incoming?

Paladin gets a DEF buff to compensate for being poor DPS? I can so handle that.

Roll on with the update and expansion in due course.

Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

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i dont see that happen, PLD go to get a New CD or a reworked one to dealt with Magic better like much to dont let It complety defenless against Magic tankbusters in a long fight, DRK dealt with physical well, but i say that more when we dont know what go to happen with foresight how is very usefull for us, face a fight with only wall and skin as raw mitigatio is not funny unless the delay betwen tankbuster is pretty big to dont be a problem.

Originally Posted by RaijinSupreme

- Paladin will have an increase in specifically magic defense, as well as physical

ummm, i hope thats means Dark Knights go to get a chunk of physical defense too to compensate.

Originally Posted by shao32

ummm, i hope thats means Dark Knights go to get a chunk of physical defense too to compensate.

Could it be that WAR will be the physical tank with decent DPS, DRK will be the Magical tank with decent DPS and Paladin will be the defensive tank with crap DPS?

It kind of makes sense considering the archetypes involved. WAR has enhanced self healing through their attacks, DRK could have enhanced MP regen and self healing through their attacks, and PLD has more passive DEF, and less dynamic self healing, along with the DPS differences, this would separate each of the tanks and give them each a niche to operate in.

Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Could it be that WAR will be the physical tank with decent DPS, DRK will be the Magical tank with decent DPS and Paladin will be the defensive tank with crap DPS?

No. The increase in Magic Defense is likely intended to prevent repeats of the A4S/A12S Paladin non/limited viability due to magic based tank busters.

Warrior is likely to be the stack management tank, Dark Knight the MP management tank and Paladin the streamlined "simple" tank. All 3 tanks should have a fairly similar level of output when played at the same level.

Originally Posted by Shougun

Huh the first thing they are addressing is more defense XD. Hopefully they can do something balanced with them, clearly Warrior is intended to be a strong damage source and Dark Knight to an extent as well.. so does that mean they're going to make Paladin "THE main tank" to compensate for the lack of damage?

What if WAR and DRK each had their own specific way of balancing the increased passive defense of Paladin through debuffs they can impose? That would make PLD the easy button tank, and imply a bit more skill (perhaps) for WAR and DRK with more active management of their DEF (not including CDs).

DS: With the new Shirogane housing zone, and the feature that will allow free companies to move, aren’t you concerned about the possibility of the old housing areas becoming empty? Is there any plan to prevent that?


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