Suggestion: Cover

[Kyant]

With the exception of specific endgame fights, cover really has no use in everyday fights. 99% of the time that you lose hate you can get it back immediately with provoke faster than you could use cover to target your ally. I imagine a large number of tanks have gone through the whole game and used Cover less than 5 times. Right now the skill is rather pointless because there are other things you could be doing that have a better effect instead of spending your time covering someone.

I see no issue to letting cover work for anyone near you. Its a slight buff imo for an ability that never gets used. Its not game-breaking in the least.

[Seku]

With the exception of specific endgame fights, cover really has no use in everyday fights.

That's cool with me, as PLD has a lot of other useful party abilities they use and mechanic ignoring abilities. Though would be nice if they extended the range on it and made it for all damage types.

[Asierid]

With the exception of specific endgame fights, cover really has no use in everyday fights.

Or you could just learn to use it. I use it all the time in dungeons/group content.

It works fine now. Make it cover all the damage instead of just physical and that's it.

[Sapphic]

I see no issue to letting cover work for anyone near you. Its a slight buff imo for an ability that never gets used. Its not game-breaking in the least.

When theres a lot of adds coming from all over, easiest way to grab them is to drop cover on the healer as they will rush to the healer anyways because of healer enmity, Then AE them to grab aggro, Healer takes no damage because, cover. Melee LBiing, drop cover on them so they dont get killed by AE when they are animation locked.

Ive also saved the MT with cover when they were about to die from a tank buster.

So yeah, uses.