Paladin too overpowered, nerf their damage output!

[Fernosaur]

I do want to underline that most of us who have been complaining the most frequently about warrior have been complaining about dark Knight too. It's not an either or argument, but we're probably warrior mains so there's probably more intimate knowledge and involvement there.

I am absolutely happy with Paladin as it is now, and I'd like if all three tanks were as well designed both in terms of feel(identity and gameplay) and capability(bringing something of value that isn't "not a paladin" while also not being awful. Only one of those have been achieved by this point.)

I totally understand the complaints too, don't get me wrong. I was a SCH main throughout HW, and dropped the job in favor of PLD after 4.0 because the vanilla version at release was just that bad. I've picked it up as a frequently played secondary after the changes tho. I also thought WHM was in a terrible spot at the very start of SB, which proved to be a rather uninformed opinion, as seen once the raid tier was actually released.

I mean to say that the situation is similar because there's still WHM players who are dead set on insisting that WHM is dead, even though it was super dominant for early progression for top groups and will continue to be dominant for midcore groups as more clears keep pouring in. Sure, WHM is gonna fall out of fashion with high level farms because you simply can't beat the efficiency of AST+SCH, but WHM had and will always have its spot for raiding, hopefully in future tiers as well.

I think a similar, albeit technically opposite situation is happening with WAR at the moment. It wasn't particularly preferred for early progression in a big part due to the bad rep the job got from the release version, but will slowly gain more traction due to the higher DPS, as slight as this advantage may be at the moment. I think as time passes this gap will start to widen a bit more too.

As for flavor and identity, that's a little bit harder, I suppose. I feel like if you ask the average WAR main what the identity of WAR really is, the image of the old HW WAR will come to mind, which was basically a one-man-army that can do literally everything at the same time. That... would be a terrible idea. That said, what would you say is an identity for WAR that could be conveyed through sensible changes to the current Skill design and iterations? Seeing how it's unlikely that the job will see more dramatic changes in the future, at least. I personally feel like Inner Release is pretty flavorful both in looks and functionality, but a lot of people have numerous qualms with how it centralizes the job's rotation.

Can't sing the same praises for DRK, though. I don't feel like DRK has any ounce of uniqueness or identity native to the way the job's toolkit looks or works. Perhaps the Drain effects should be more prevalescent throughout all of their skills? I don't know.

[Umbeliel]

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To the point of "what would I like"- I've said it in other threads too, but ultimately I don't actually care. Kind of.

My issue is largely that I want -some kind of identity- that isn't "2~3% dps over pld" and absolutely nothing else. What do you take a Warrior for? LB gauge and dubiously noticable dps difference is not a good enough answer. What does a Warrior do that other tanks don't? What do they provide to the party? Right now, the answer is nothing.

How we get it doesn't matter to me. A set and forget tank b/c high self sustain? Sure. Significantly higher dps(ala samurai/blm vs other dps)? I don't actually want that, but if it's clear and an absolute part of what a Warrior is supposed to be by design, sure. Tank bard w/party buffs? Sure idc. What's important is that something is there.

[Thela]

To the point of "what would I like"- I've said it in other threads too, but ultimately I don't actually care. Kind of.

My issue is largely that I want -some kind of identity- that isn't "2~3% dps over pld" and absolutely nothing else. What do you take a Warrior for? LB gauge and dubiously noticable dps difference is not a good enough answer. What does a Warrior do that other tanks don't? What do they provide to the party? Right now, the answer is nothing.

How we get it doesn't matter to me. A set and forget tank b/c high self sustain? Sure. Significantly higher dps(ala samurai/blm vs other dps)? I don't actually want that, but if it's clear and an absolute part of what a Warrior is supposed to be by design, sure. Tank bard w/party buffs? Sure idc. What's important is that something is there.

Well one thing a war can do on O4S that a PLD cannot is take all 3 delta attacks because of the short cooldown on holmgang vs the 7 minutes on HG. Sure a DRK can do this as well if they use the first living dead a little prematurely so it will line up with the 2nd delta attack.

But yeah i don't know really for identity, they don't bring any particular group utility as such, but they do their job well enough and bring slightly higher dps than a pld. On top of this they bring arguably the best set of defensive cd's of all tanks. I'm not really sure they need anything else? DRK on the other hand, well they need something for sure.