Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
That being said, I think PLD did need a second look. Some design elements like DV's activation were just clunky, and others are just vestigial (i.e. Shield Bash, as you've mentioned). While DV itself is simple to fix (just make it activate like Shake), I think that it's hard to justify the additional raidwide mitigation tool over other tanks, especially when you consider how important those raidwides can be. And they're likely going to be looking at ways to bring button counts back to the average, rather than keep them inflated.
Maybe a hot take, but I don't think stuff like Shield Bash should be removed. I think it's perfectly fine to have buttons that have no application to raid gameplay, because removing those buttons removes opportunities to find uses for them in non-raid gameplay. Criterion is an opportunity to have trash etc that are actually enjoyable to deal with, but they *can't* really do that due to the lack of utility among most classes.