Quote Originally Posted by millktea View Post
More nonsense and hyperbole...
First off, using HS as a reason for PLD shouldn't gain a gap closer is pathetic. HS / HC is only instacast if you req beforehand which itself is not ranged. All throughout SB there was a plethora of fights where knockbacks occurred, as this was an overused design, where tempered will on a 3 minute CD was not sufficient, but WAR and DRK had gap closers which were a fraction of the recast time, and allowed to negate (timed correctly) or lessen the uptime lost, which PLD could not. This, and TW being replaced with Arm's Length in the tank role action is more than enough justification for PLD gaining a gap closer. (Yes DRK had to use Plunge on CD, but could hold a couple seconds if a pushback wasn't far off).

I mean sometimes you have to meld to reach SkS tiers to make a job playable for some, and outside of that no you don't have to specifically meld to play a job, but it does help. If none of the tanks should meld DH okay remove the DH effect from IR, prevent DH affecting all damage dealt by tanks AND healers then. Thing is DH scales pretty well on tanks, and since it scales so well, many will want to meld it. You don't like it don't meld it, plenty other people do and will meld it.

Skipping half your we didn't get anything entitlement rant, but you keep saying WAR didn't get anything new, did WAR have Inner Chaos, Chaotic Cyclone, Nascent Flash, Mythril Tempest as they currently exist before 5.0? hmmm, nope, guess what that means....wait for it...you got something new...wow isn't it amazing!!!

Again with the GNB crap, so it's strictly subjective as to whether we needed a new tank or not in your eyes, but the thing is, many people are happy they added GNB, and yes having a new tank was needed to break up how stale it was for some, look at the healers reaction to not getting a new healer in 5.0, that would have been the same response from a lot of tanks.

DRK did need reworked, and it's a mixed bag, which some people like it, others don't, can't keep everyone happy.

Tbh, WAR has the best burst damage and the best personal mitigation suite out of all the tanks, so it's not behind the tanks in those regards, it's more balanced finally after all these years. Just get a better kill time. The job itself isn't mediocre it's just boring compared to the other tanks.