Simple Fix to PLD

[Jinko]

WAR
has higher base HP
5 threat generation skills: (Voke, collusion, weaponskill, Flash, Dps)
3 Damage reduction skills: (Rampart Sentnel and foresight)
1 heal: Second Wind (
Thats it... Thats all it can do.

Hmm so bloodbath doesn't count as healing now ?

[Enfarious]

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Edit: I am in NO way saying, PLD should be your main tank in CC or AV or whatever, I am saying that it IS ALREADY a very strong class, people just don't know how to play. It doesn't need a "buff" it needs you to "Learn2play" before suggesting revisions to already well balanced features.

Others covered the rest of that post in spades, but really isn't this the problem, PLD is a tank and the answer is don't use pld as a tank for things?
Does that not seem horribly broken?
Does that not need some work?

I'm sorry, when did we switch to magic resistance? I recall the conversation to be on physical defense.

Anyway...

If your entire basis for PLD needing a buff is magic resistance, then you should have said that.

Everywhere else, PLD is a better, and more versatile tank.

WAR is a better DPS/Tank hybrid.

It was on dmg mitigation in general.
WAR should not be the definitive answer to tanking, it should be a secondary at most, PLDs traditionally tank and tank well, this is not the case in just FFs but all RPGs that have PLD or a PLD like class. How can anyone say that another job is a better tank and not feel instantly like something is wrong.

Shield your eyes here's some FFXI stuff:
Are there other classes that tank? Hell yea, gods know I loved tanking on thf, nin, dnc, mnk all in XI, but at the end of the day a pld could tank all the same things and if they were decent they'd do it well, the -m/pdt gear more than making them a match for those AoE spells/attks that ate shadows and put down my eva tanks.
You can safely unshield your eyes now.

Really to say, wear more def, your a bad pld, or any of that other crap is just that, it's crap. PLD is broken, we all know it, stop trying to say it isn't.

[Stufoo]

Hmm so bloodbath doesn't count as healing now ?

I'm more worried about him forgetting Vengeance and Antagonize. Maybe that's why he thinks PLD is good, he knows absolutely nothing about WAR and thinks cover is a "damage reduction" ability.

Featherfoot too.

Dmg reduction has an impact on enmity reduction:
dmg dealt == +enmity while dmg recieved == -enmity
Therefore a dmg reduction trait would help a pld hold hate

lol I'm sure glad knowledgeable people post on these forums to help shape the future of this game.