Quote Originally Posted by Rorrick View Post
lulz, it's been so long since I played Paladin I forgot I merited Iron Will. That magic shield effect is mediocre at best though, especially now with every enemy spamming -ga IVs or otherwise hard hitting magical AoE attacks.
A magic shield that reduces magic attacks against you and your party by a couple hundred is still better then nothing.

Quote Originally Posted by Rorrick View Post
Paladin has never really been great at holding hate. You either play with subpar DDs or they were holding back to keep things under control. It's to the point now though where, both inside and outside Abyssea, holding back just isn't a viable solution. You pretty much need to disengage to let a Paladin hold hate. I consider tanking to be "taking all the damage" which is what this change does. If your Paladins never cured themselves then they sucked, but that has nothing to do with how you'd play the job with a Cover job trait. I don't see how anything would change, honestly. The only difference is that your enmity level wouldn't matter, which is the entire problem in the first place.
Yes thy couldn't go all out right at the start of the fight but usually they could after a mins or two, and a pld could hold hate for a few mins before they would also hit the cap. I consider tanking as keeping your party alive by having the mob focus on you by actually doing your job. This change would change a lot of things and hurt pld more. We already got another bad players that use to play it when it was popular. Enmity levels should matter, basicly you metality is the same as the people that just started the game and aby from 30-90. "I want to game to play itself for me while I take it easy.

Some pld actually like to tank and want to earn it. I rather have a fix then a bandage.

QUOTE=Rorrick;118325]Just because you play with lazy Paladins doesn't mean this isn't the easiest, most impactful change they can make to Paladin to add SOME usefulness to the job. If you want to stand there and AFK, that's your prerogative, but I won't be, and making Cover a job trait won't force me to.[/QUOTE]

I never had to play with bad plds, if one didn't want to do their job (and i was patient trying to help them out if they listen) I had a choice to switch to mine.
Sure it easy, pld wouldn't have to do anything to do their job. Sure it be impactful in a negative way, and sure it make pld useful, until you realize now you really have made the job a bad job to play.and no I want to do my job and actually earn it.