Thoughts on PLD changes

[eagledorf]

Clemency is basically only useful if the healer dies. In those situations, it's incredibly powerful, but otherwise it's a useless skill. Since healer DPS has been nerfed into the ground you're always better off using your MP to DPS.

It's unfortunate in a sense because PLD effectively is the only job that won't self-heal at all playing optimally, but on the other hand it's also the only job that can spam self-heals.

[Xynthion]

Clemency is basically only useful if the healer dies. In those situations, it's incredibly powerful, but otherwise it's a useless skill. Since healer DPS has been nerfed into the ground you're always better off using your MP to DPS.

It's unfortunate in a sense because PLD effectively is the only job that won't self-heal at all playing optimally, but on the other hand it's also the only job that can spam self-heals.

Was doing Malikah Well the other day and the healer died at the last boss with around 60% of the boss's HP left. The DPS so far had seemed competent at dodging mechanics so I figured "What the hell, let's try this." I carried the whole rest of the run using Clemency (prioritizing healing them first after AOE since that would partially heal me too) and gave up DPS to do Fast Blade --> Riot Blade only to make sure I was maximizing my mana in case of emergencies. We proceeded to kill the boss without any close calls and it felt ridiculously overpowered. No other tank could have done that.

Granted, this was a leveling dungeon. In Savage raiding I feel like the passive heals of other tanks would be far more helpful.