PLD vs WAR: testing

[Duelle]

- at the expense of another party member. The Solo trial makes a good point that you chose to overlook.

The fact that PLD can self-apply should not be overlooked simply because a warrior can delegate damage mitigation to someone else in the same fashion PLD can delegate damage dealing to someone else.

It's overlooked because off-healing as part of a tank's job is a very bad idea. Between sub-targetting sucking horribly on keyboard+mouse and lack of mouseover macros, you as the tank cannot afford the distraction of looking at health bars and tossing heals.

A Warrior Set up defers to 2 WHMs and relies upon the Warrior to make up the damage differential.

A Paladin setup defers to a second hybrid or damage class rather than a second WHM.

That second WHM should be non-negotiable. I just hope encounters can justify having more than one tank and more than one healer in a group as time goes by, otherwise there will be problems because of this attempt at distinction.

Not to mention, the second setence has situational written all over it, which we don't need. PLD and WAR, as well as WHM and whatever other healer they put into the game, have to be interchangable. Otherwise we give way for preferred jobs and leaving people out in the cold.