So does every hate new PLD now?

[Rithy255]

No I like it, I think it's great. I just really don't think Confettior and combo justify having an exclusive button for it. Button bloat is real. Fold Confettior into Holy Spirit/Circle or Req itself.

I feel like they could just make Holy circle a cleave aoe upgrade for spirit, but I generally agree, epically now it would make sense while under req you don't really wanna use holy spirit at 90 but at 80 you want to use 3 but can be out of order... It just seems like it would solve space issues and people pressing holy spirit on accident.

[Gserpent]

For basic use, it's okay. But the fact that they didn't fix existing jank, Goring Blade is a GCD action despite basically just being an upjumped Upheaval, etc doesn't sit well with me at all and makes me feel like it was a rushed job - or it was done by people that didn't spend a sufficient amount of time iterating on the changes. It's functional but it feels bad.

Clemency remaining a vestigial button also bothers me. It would have been a no-brainer to add it to Divine Might - instant cast, make it heal the PLD for equal as the target, bam done. Would it be used in reclears or "serious" play? Nah. But it would make the button a little more useful and fun for casual play.

More than anything, though, I'm frustrated they didn't address PLD's wacky skill progression. Why the fuck do we still have to wait until 74 for our gap closer if you're specifically and intentionally shifting away from combat design where "PLD can just cast spells and make it come to them" isn't a thing that would justify lacking a gap closer for so long?

[ChewieFlakes]

It just feels like a weaker, jankier version of the previous PLD iteration. I knew it would be garbage and yet I am still disappointed. I guess it's not quite as bad as the SMN rework.

The devs dropped the ball so hard on Job design this expansion. What were they thinking?

[ClusterDreams]

It feels awful to play and it's so bad that not only am I considering switching jobs, I'm thinking about quitting the game until next expansion.

[ThatBigBirb]

60% of PLD can be melted down into a single button macro. Of course I hate it.

[RyuDragnier]

No, I like the new PLD as it feels a bit better now to play. But it still has room to be even better.

[Corbeau]

No, new PLD owns.

[Oextra]

I don't. A lot of people are overreacting to the rotation. Imo they mainly missed the mark by leaving cover the same (instead of giving it mitigation or something), keeping the way you build oath the same (auto attacks instead of GCDs), and not making the spells recast time the same as physical attacks. If they fixed these 3 things, the job would feel a lot better.

[Amenara]

Miss how the old rotation flowed for me as a non-optimizer. I don't necessarily hate it but the rework made it a job I probably won't play much anymore.

[Videra]

I don't think I've ever seen a rework get this amount of bad feedback so quickly before.

Healers are truly the skeleton in the drowning child, mom and uplifted child meme.