New tanking abilities in the expansion thread!

[Domira]

Yeah, PLDs need to have fights designed around them to make them interesting. Levi Ex is actually pretty fun as PLD, you have a lot of mechanics to take care of and the design makes great use of many of PLDs skills: Shield Bash, Tempered Will, Hallowed Ground, hell even Stoneskinning yourself.

Warrior vs Paladin is Consistency vs Situational

Paladin:

Tempered Will: Situational, rarely used. Levi Ex and Titan are the only times I recall using it
Cover: Rarely ever used except in pvp
Shield Bash: Rarely ever used except in dungeons and Levi ex
Flash (Blind): 95% of mobs outside of dungeons are immune
Shield Swipe (Pacification): 95% of mobs outside of dungeons are immune, making shield swipe absolutely useless

Warrior:

Storm's Path: Always works
Storm's Eye: Always works
Brutal Swing: Situational, 95% of mobs are immune to stun outside of dungeons
Maim: Always works

Nearly all of their skills always work.



Aside from brutal swing, all of warrior skills are useful and are not situational. There is no mob mechanic that prevents warriors from getting the 20% dmg buff from maim, nor are mobs immune to storm's path or storm's eye, ever. The result is warrior has a lot more things to do. Paladin on the other hand, their skills get literally gutted. Everything is immune to blind, pacification and stun resulting in paladin being limited to rage of halone combo and cooldowns. Furthermore, PLD cooldowns are on average a lot longer than Warriors, resulting in again less things to do.

Its terrible class design on SEs part, why give a class mechanics that nearly all mobs are immune to? It would be a better idea to turn those mechanics into something that can be useful at all times, like buffs. How many situations have required for PLD to use cover? None really. PLD just needs to be made less situational to give it more complexity. Also compared to warrior, pld has worse cross skill choices.