All Paladin needs is a way to turn from Defensive to Offensive and be able to turn back to Defensive on Demand. It COULD be like any other DD'er, turning that 900 defense into at least 550 attack and then back again when the mob is ontop of you again.

And Monks aren't going to be end all of tanking. I'm sorry, there is so much left to add in this game, monks for one feed too much TP to the mob. You ARE NOT gonna survive a NM that has a regain of 20+/tick that WS's every 4-5 seconds. You'd just be a MP dump.

But to get paladin back up there..yes a 20 second shield bash is needed. 1 Minute Sentinel, Rampart. They need to give paladin Provoke on his own so he can /nin to blink or /mnk for more HP.

And all really they need, even without a GS, is 1 Job ability so they can turn that defense into Offense. Simple as that. My sword skill is insane, it's fully merited, with the amount of +sword skill out there you can do some pretty nasty Vorpal Blades.

Don't think that I do not have a FULL STR build for Vorpal Blade. I can do some pretty NASTY vorpal blades. People don't respect Vorpal Blade for what it can do... Or a Full build for GS WS's for my paladin. All they need is a skill that turns all them defense bonuses they got into actual offense, they could deal enough damage to bring the mob back ontop of them and contend for hate with Skills, Flash, Healing the monk.

SE isn't going to let this job just die. If they are smart, they will turn a Paladin into what a Paladin truely is. A Defensive heavy armored Knight with the ability of getting the hell beat out of them and having the ability to beat the hell out of their target. Knights weren't sissies that just took damage for others. The brought fear and terror to their enemies, hard to kill and could kill you easily.

That is gonna be about the ONLY way to fix PLD. Allow them to have a JA that takes their 5 defense bonuses and turns them into 5 Attack bonuses with ACC along with it. Don't add enmity, just let it be obtained via spells/gear/skills. That is all they have to do. Be able to go from Defensive to Offensive Back to Defensive as needed. Make it like Hasso and Seigan, 1 minute recast, 5 minute duration that way the offense can be turned back into defense and so on and so forth.

They should add this Job Ability in. Call it 'The Calling of a True Knight'. Or 'The Release of a True Knight' because that is what Paladins really were. They were a higher order of Knights, that used a sword and shield and tore through legions of enemies. Instilled complete fear to anyone facing them, knowing they were going to die.

It's a real simple fix. It really is.