Clemency is an okay tool if you're in a dungeon and the healer dies. A PLD can carry a dead healer through a boss fight and keep everyone alive: the downside? PLD loses so much damage by doing this. By casting one Clemency, because of how it affects the Holy Spirit rotation and off-sets your combo rotations as well, you already lose quite a bit of DPS, but by spamming Clemency bc the healer is dead or whatever? Your damage output pretty much stops completely.

In comparing to the other two tanks, and for the sake of it, to how Warrior was in HW: right now, PLD has to stop everything they are doing in order to heal others or themselves. Warrior in HW kept dealing ridiculous damage, self-healing for ridiculous amounts, and lost... literally nothing for it. There's no point of comparison. Yes, PLD is extremely flexible for situations gone awry rn, but that doesn't make them OP, since Clemency is still an undesireable skill to use optimally.

If you're forced to use Clemency, it already means a lot of things have gone bad.