Please give Paladin access to Pugilist skill tree instead of Conjurer.

[Duelle]

I don't know why this information is in my head, but I thought MND was a more important attribute for PLDs than it is now because it increased Healing Magic Potency and Magic Def. But I guess it is not the case anymore. Are these feelings within the community a result of most tanks plugging purely STR/VIT?

I see it more as a result of the transition from XI's outlook on PLD to the approach XIV has taken. Someone in the other forums put it best when they said that even as far back as FFIV a paladin's magic was mostly lackluster but not game-breaking (don't remember the exact quote, but went along the lines of "Cecil having white magic was not for heals because his heals were LOL, but because it saved the party one turn by having him cast Protect and saving Rosa that turn).

XIV's PLD follows this idea in that your bread and butter for aggro is sword skills and stuff like Flash. CNJ skills are utility that don't break the job when not in use.