Thoughts on PLD changes

[Kolsykol]

We were given tools but not meant to use them. Something is wrong here and we're basically the only job left in the game that still has this problem.

Okay maybe not but I can't think of any other class that gets you yelled at for actually using parts of their kit. Well maybe WHM and the actual Cure spells.

You're meant to use them if it's actually useful.
Benediction exists but that doesn't mean that it should just be used for the sake of using it.

Should you use your defensive CD's against a single mob or use it for the next group?
It's a tool right? So '' hurr durr just use it ''?
Or maybe it's not that simple and just because you have a tool and you're using it doesn't mean that you're actually being useful or performing better.
Just because you have a hammer and you're hitting something with it doesn't mean that you're using it in a good way.

Again, Clemency for example...
If a healer is throwing Tetragrammaton and Afflatus Solace on you while you have a regen and you're standing in Asyulm you're not helping and you're not making good use of Clemency by spamming it.
It's one thing if the healer is clearly having problems and you do it or if the healer is dead, it's an entirely different thing doing it when the healer is spamming Holy and is keeping you alive without having to stop casting Holy just to keep you alive.
Tetragrammaton and Afflatus Solace is a GCD, why should both of you stop dps:ing just to both throw out more heals than necessary?
Especially when you as a PLD have better AoE damage and it's the healers job and responsibility to heal.

This entire narrative and idea that '' we have a tool so we should use it '' is incredibly simple-minded tbh and it's not how things work in practice at all.
Even for dps it's not that simple.
People need to ask themselves if what they're doing is actually helping or not and to think beyond just what you yourself are doing and think of it in the grander scheme of things and in the context of an entire group doing things together.

I know that I have an aggressive tone right now but I am just a bit tired of people trying to rationalize why they're doing random things just for the sake of doing them.

Edit: In regards to the whole stunning thing I think that it really depends a lot.
Do you have melee in your group? Is it just one mob that does it and there's a longer cd inbetween before it does it again?
If there's a lot of AoE happening then I don't see how stunning one of them is going to do much if anything, it's better to just kill them asap.
If it's one of those in the last packs in Holminster Switch tho then it's whatever.

I think that it's a matter of context like with everything else.
But I'd like to remind people that tanks have an ogcd stun, so I dunno why people are talking about Shield Bash.
You can continue to AoE and stun at the same time.
Even as someone who hates Clemency spamming PLD's I don't think that's an issue.