Clemency a bit OP?

[eagledorf]

In all seriousness, because Clemency does significant damage to your DPS and reduces your ability to use Sheltron in Shield Oath I think it's fine that it's more powerful than Equilibrium.

Keep in mind, DRK can also spam a self-heal now for 20% of HP with The Blackest Knight. Shields are effectively self-heals (anybody remember self-healing with Stoneskin while the SMN raised the healer?) and while TBK is weaker than Clemency as a heal, it's mitigation and self-heal in one and does very minimal damage to your DPS (like 10 potency loss) so it's more versatile than Clemency. TBK is also strongest when used on yourself and weakest when used on a party member while Clemency is the opposite. In fact, if Clemency wasn't significantly stronger than DRK self-healing, DRK would be way overpowered.

Right now PLD looks like they're the best at a variety of things, but to do one thing they must lose the ability to do another (say you want to DPS hard, now you can't heal or if you want to mitigate your next tank buster you can't shield a party member anymore). DRK is the best at AoE and while they're weaker than PLD in utility, they're more flexible in that they can pop TBK and keep rolling. WAR is sort of middle of the road in that IB is a 150 potency loss from Fell Cleave and they have strong single-target and AoE DPS, but probably not top-tier at either anymore.

There will be a serious problem with balance if SE designs content poorly. For example, if you need LOTS of mitigation of tank busters DRK will be trash. If you need LOTS of single target DPS DRK will be trash. If you need LOTS of AoE PLD will be trash. If you need lots of single target party member shielding (would this ever happen?) WAR would be trash. If SE makes content so that the demands on the tanks are varied the tanks should be better balanced.

I suspect if there's no AoE PLD will be somewhat overpowered and if there's lots of AoE PLD will be somewhat under-powered and visa-versa for DRK, but hopefully SE isn't so stupid as to make it as bad as HW for two expansions in a row. I suspect this patch the real trash-tier balance is going to be the healers...