Possible Paladin Rework...

[Daniolaut]

Please please please Square'Enix take note of this thread and make PLD fun/even with WAR.

I 'main-ed' PLD from 2.0 to 2.2. Upon 2.3 i 'main-ed' all 9 jobs. I found a new static that was looking for a warrior and i picked the job up.

Since playing warrior i see that warrior can not only do what PLD could do before warrior was reworked but since the rework it can now do much much more.

Warrior's Overpower is ... well way overpowered compared to PLD's flash.

I personally hate flash. The animation is horrid, and the enmity generation is useless until shield oath and even with shield oath its still a joke compared to overpower.

So not only does flash not generate as much threat as overpower it also doesnt deal damage. So here WAR doubles over PLD in aoe. If flash dealt twice the enmity that it currently does then it would match up to war and wouldnt need to be spammed and would be an effective skill.

Circle of Scorn, Cover, and Shield Swipe all really need attention. I dont know how they can make these skills more useful without totally reworking them.

Shield Swipe, nearly no enemies outside of trash mobs are affected by pacification, and even trash mobs in the world only take a 6s pacification which is the time between one weapon skill to another anyway so the 6s pacification is 100% useless imo.

Cover, i've only found minor use for it in brayflox speed runs, on the second pull and the second boss.. only.. in the entire game. Thats sad imo.

Circle of Scorn is just not very good either. Its usefull since its off the GCD but thats probably the only nice thing about it aside from its actually really nice animation. I'm sure they, since SE doesnt want PLD's to deal massive damage, could cause it to deal some actual useful debuff such as bind..... actually that would make it next to perfect if it could bind.


Some ways to make PLD more interesting: (kinda repeating just whats been said.)

Shield Swipe: To work much like blood letter, Be off the GCD, deal 210 potency and either 1: have real enemies be affected by pacification or 2: increase enmity or some other useful effect.

FlashOut of combo after riot blade no blind affect and its normal enmity gain. In combo after riot blade cause blind and deal double enmity. (this combo is desperately needed imo for low level pld's/gld's who dont have shield oath.)

Circle of ScornAddtional Effect: Binds enemy.

Shield Bash Should not interrupt combos.

Shield/Sword OathYes please take them off the GCD or remove the MP cost.. one of the two. Its very silly to have both on the GCD and cost so much.

PLD generates more single target enmity than a warrior.

I play both PLD and WAR and this is just not true.

A WAR doing just Butchers Block combo and a PLD doing just Rage of Halone combo, WAR generates more threat due to crit hits from wrath being at 5 stacks.