Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
A good WAR will always be better than a good PLD.

I don't believe the topic is on making PLD work, because technically, it does work and is useable in content. The problem is that it just no where near measures up to what WAR can give. You can cut WAR's usefulness by half and it would still be a better tank than PLD right now.

If people look at having PLD as a challenge and gloating they can beat a dungeon with it, then there is a problem. Even those people are acknowledging PLD is a bad tank to use and they work with it.

Honestly, I rather PLD be the superior tank over WAR. While WAR should be able to tank in his own unique way, I want PLD to be the one people depend on. Unlike PLD, WAR can specialize in both tanking and be a full time DPS, which isn't completely fair to the PLD. PLD needs to be the ultimate tank.

Like I said, if you want to fix PLD, just make their abilities generate a lot more hate than they do now, and change the stats that Defense > HP, and PLD would be good to go.
This post succinctly describes the problem.

You can do it with Paladin. It is not a particularly attractive option, though.

There's no reason to want a Paladin. It doesn't bring its own unique edge to the group.

People say that "If you have a Paladin, you don't need two white mages." I feel a bit dumb for asking, but in what situation does a Paladin's presence no longer necessitate two white mages?

The reason you have two white mages in any given "two white mage" event is to maintain the HP of the party, not the tank. You do not bring two white mages to Ifrit to save the tank, you bring two white mages to Ifrit to keep the DD afloat. You do not bring two white mages to Moogle solely to keep the tank alive, you bring two white mages to keep the party alive when the moogles AOE or swap targets. You do not bring two white mages to Garuda, because it can be accomplished with only one white mage.

You do not bring two white mages to EXP, because it simply isn't necessary with Regenga. o.o In what situation do you bring two white mages for the tank? I know of none. This supposed edge over Warrior simply doesn't exist.