Ruining your Job to make it more desirable: Paladin Edition

[Eorzean_username]

Do you currently enjoy the playstyle of Paladin?

You won't when I'm through with it!

"But why? "

Because we need to bring up those PLD participation numbers in the game's most popular content, such as cutting-edge Savage clears and static-disbanding Ultimates about elderly men resurrecting yaoi characters by eating reptile organs.

"...is this sarcasm?"

No? Yes? Maybe? Only vaguely? ...I'm so burnt-out on the developers's repeated inability to foresee, and especially to successfully respond to, certain fundamental design problems, that I think I've lost my ability to take things 100% seriously. Nonetheless, if you want to see Paladins displace other Tanks overnight, this might do the trick.

"This is overpowered"

You always have to ask for too much. If you ask for only exactly what you actually need, the SE developers will respond by giving you an increase of 5 potency on Fast Blade.

"Homogenization"

Yeah, that's gonna happen when we make everyone able to do everything everywhere. Try to just lay back, and think about the animations. You'll always have your animations. Well, until you don't. Farewell, Clean Shot.

"Skill Expression"

Yeah, sorry, but you're just talking to the wrong person. I've reached the point where I really don't care any more — it's Final Fantasy Fourteen, I'm just here to watch the pretty person in pretty armor run around casting pretty spells while the bad snot lady tries to cleave me.

"Braindead"

Okay, but... but! Think of all the extra mental energy that you'll have for doing all the other brilliant and productive things in your life, such as negotiating nuclear disarmament, or buying Twitter.

"But I've already seen half or more of these ideas in other threads "

Wow! Incredible! It seems that convergent evolution is taking place before our very eyes! Perhaps that is possibly a hypothetical susggestion that maybe the developers should consider actually implementing those ideas, rather than increasing the potency of Blade of Valor by 15. But, of course, that's just (pertly sips tea) my opinion.

"I hate all of your ideas. I refuse you. We are not friends."

Ha ha that's okay, keep on truckin', I'll just be vibin' here at the edge of the universe playing Gunbreaker