Serious Point Allocation Discussion

[Frein]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

PLD is my all time favorite XI job, but it's probably one of the last jobs on the "Need" list. SE has made no effort to improve the practicality of PLD in XI.

I would prefer the XIV incarnation be not only infinitely more useful, but actually DESIRED among the playerbase.

The reason why PLD was (is?) so unwanted in FFXI is that Utsusemi exists and that makes the core strength of the class obsolete.

[Alerith]

The reason why PLD was (is?) so unwanted in FFXI is that Utsusemi exists and that makes the core strength of the class obsolete.

Even without Utsusemi, SE has "balanced" the game so that almost any DD job can withstand a reasonable amount of damage so that they can tank while still contributing more damage to the battle.

PLD's survivability, which is outstanding, is considered void because most any other melee job can eat the damage and still offer more to the battle. For a lot of that, the melee doesn't need utsusemi.

But I will give SE credit in that the Voidwatch content does void some DD as potential tanks.