Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
can you possibly stop being obstinate for the sake of it for a moment and think about what you're saying? the only time PLD ever sucked at tanking was before NA release, and NIN tanks hadn't even been discovered then. they were GREAT tanks all the way up through endgame- they just didn't lend themselves to exp parties as well as ninja for obvious reasons, which made ninja the fad preference in exp for obvious reasons.

they were never "excluded" from the scheme, they just weren't preferred. kind of like how whm were never "excluded" from healing, but rdm became preferred after a while- for the same basic reason nin was preferred over pld. you can't go around trying to "fix" certain jobs to account efficiency in specific situations or you just end up endlessly "fixing" every single job over and over throughout the life of a game leading to new gaps and disparities that need to be fixed.

why? because people constantly change and adapt. so let them, and stop crying.

because in the end, people STILL needed and wanted whm, and people STILL needed and wanted PLD. just because they weren't the most efficient in EVERY GIVEN SITUATION that didn't make them broken, sucky or useless.

stop sensationalizing, kiddo.
PLD should always be the prefered tank, that is their entire purpose.

If they aren't good at their purpose and they aren't balanced at other purposes like dealing significant damage, then they do suck in light of other options -hence a preference not to choose them. Also I played NA release and the choice to choose NIN over PLD happened all the time.

So stop being obstinate and stop sensationalizing kiddo, its unbecoming.