Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Fryfor]

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Ignoring your wall of text, is there a reason why you don't do savage? Asking for a friend.

[Gserpent]

Ignoring your wall of text, is there a reason why you don't do savage? Asking for a friend.

Was busy with work for Asphodelos and I was taking a break from the game for most of Abyssos. Progging fights is a lot of fun, but you can do those at any time with MINE enabled if needed. The actual nitty gritty of reclearing fights wasn't very fun even back in ShB, but I did it because I was part of a static that was pretty fun to play with. Unfortunately, EW has doubled down on making classes rather uninteresting to actually *play* and PLD was one of the few exceptions where you still needed to use your noggin occasionally or risk losing significant damage. Won't know for sure until the PLL, but it's likely we're going to see that removed like they did with WAR.

I don't really understand why Square-Enix is so dead-set against having a low floor *and* a (reasonably) high ceiling. The two aren't mutually exclusive. WAR in ShB was actually a pretty good baseline to work off of - it was maybe a little *too* simple, but it still had an appreciable difference between floor and ceiling, and the floor was fairly low which made the class accessible for newbies (there's a reason it was almost always recommended as babby's first tank.)