Shield Wall: A Dual-Paladin Static

[Galactimus]

There's some ridiculous synergy about to happen between double Paladins. We are now under oath to run dual-shield comps. My body is ready.

- Two Paladins can Cover each other for 20% mitigation

- Divine Veil each other (and Party) for 10% shield

- Intervention each other (or Party) for 10% mitigation (20% if Rampart is up or 30% if Sentinel is up) Plus, one Paladin gets to stay in Sword Oath and spam Intervention (/drool)

- Passage of Arms each other (and Party) for 15% mitigation plus 20-25% Shield Block mitigation

- Clemency can be cast 2x more often per Paladin and is affected by Convalescence + Requiscat. Crazy self-sustain if needed

- Four Hallowed Grounds in one fight

Nobody wanted us from 3.0 to 4.0. They carried "lolPld Bibles" in their pockets. They laughed and laughed; but now our shields are united. Those War's and Drk's can keep their "No Pld's allowed" statics. Who needs em! Mwahahaha /Clemency. (Hope War's get fixed quickly though.)

[Steelbreeze]

Except none of that is made better for having two PLD.

[Donaria]

All of this is awesome, my main is drg but my off roll is pld. I'm so excited for pld now I think I might change my main roll now.

[Naelle]

As a career Paladin since 1.21 I'm really liking all the salty tears from Warrior and Dark Knight camps. But seriously, I do hope all 3 are perfectly viable and balanced. Making Warriors identity nothing but DPS has always been dangerous in a setting where DPS is most important. Bringing all 3 tanks to similar DPS and making mitigation and utility matter more in raid settings is my best case scenario.

[Cabalabob]

Say bye to your LB fill rate.

While in DF sure 2 PLDs actually work well together now. But in a static, it's still better to bring a DRK or WAR. WAR provides the slashing debuff, though that now can be covered by a NIN or SAM, DRK brings a 10% damage up with sole survivor, PLD still doesn't bring any offensive party utility and while that's fine because it has loads of defensive utility, we'll probably still see DRKs and WARs bringing things to the table we don't.

It all depends on how the fights work, but PLD + DRK/WAR will likely still get stuck in the progression tank setup for its high defensive utility, while DRK + WAR will be favourable for farming for higher dps utility.

Personally, nothing really changes for my group, we already have a PLD + DRK + NIN combo. So unless someone changes in stormblood we already have an ideal setup in that area.

[Galactimus]

Say bye to your LB fill rate.

Acceptable losses.

[Velthice]

Acceptable losses.

This but unironically. With current numbers, you actually come out ahead of the lb penalty and any utility the other tanks bring (like drk trick attack from sole survivor). Pld is that strong, and double pld is being strongly considered by heavy prog groups like Xenosys Vex.

[aqskerorokero]

The "static party" idea is bs by itself! I play only with randoms!

[Greil]

With the current numbers yes, but they are coming from an old build dating from april, Yoshida himself said they have touched a lot of things since.

We can only hope pld's dps is not unbalanced, while we're at it, I also hope they changed Tempered Will and Bulwark cooldowns, 3 minutes for what this abilities do is way too much.

[AlexSag]

I feel like all this talk about OP PLD is just going to jinx it. Let's just cross our fingers, keep our mouth shut and enjoy it if and when it happens. Until release, this is all just speculation