As of late I have been thinking of ways that a Paladin could become a tank and as of lately with this site being given to us in a way I thought I could voice them.
One of my opinions are to increase the hate gain from the cure spells. Reason, I'm in belief it is time for PLD to obtain another Cure spell to match their new HP and the whole Abyssea them. The other thing that could be done though along with this is to give PLDs a Job Trait that increases the normal hate obtained through casting these spells correspondent with the level they obtain them (5, 17, 27, 55, ??). Along with this JT if plausible(sp?), Could even throw in a Cure potency with each Trait in this manner.
(I haven't had the idea of a good name yet for it.)
Job Trait Tier I,(lv.5) - Enhances Cure potency by 2% and enmity of cure spell
Job Trait Tier II, (lv.17) -Enhances Cure potency by 4% and enmity of cure spell
Basically as it should already be seen for each job trait the cure potency increases by 2%, the amount of enmity obtained I would leave that for you to decide to be honest if you would to make something like this.
The other idea I had recently thought of is to give Paladins a Job Ability that would take hate from an entire party in a percentage. I haven't come up with any idea on how much but I know that SE likes 5%~15% a lot (But really hate from 5 other people is really great if it was that amount). At the same time like other posts have mention you could even raise the Enmity cap for Paladins with this Job Ability.
I was thinking this Job Ability could be obtained level 55 or higher. Duration could be 30 seconds and a recast of 1~2 minutes.
An earlier thought which I've decided I'm too lazy to go back and fit into the whole Cure enmity adjustment is to increase it to a point where after done multiple times (I'm looking at you Monk and White Mage duo's) That the mob would go after the White Mage, Basically making a Paladin wanted. (There's going to be a bounty on my head from all the Monks that dual box a White Mage now) * cry cry*
Yes I did notice it says top instead of topic...I feel like an idiot since I noticed it after I hit submit. ><