Proposed changes to Tank jobs

[Kosmos992k]

Blind (Pal/Drk) Should effect all mobs, but be nerfed to only affect auto attacks.
Paladin Only:
Shield Swipe should be off GCD, cost no tp, but with a CD of 5 seconds (and retain its requirement to be proced off a block). Remove pacification--this is largely useless anyways.

Agree with the Blind, I do not agree that pacification is useless, it's a good halfway house between a real stun and nothing. My biggest issue with both pacification and stun is that far too many things seem to be immune. Perhaps the %chance of pacification or stun could be scaled based on the difference in level with a base chance of something like 30-50% of achieving the stun or pacification. Pacification worked really well initially, but by level 50 in ARR it seemed that anything you'd want to use it on was immune to it. I need to pay more attention in HW content to see whether it's just as ineffective. The effect is a good one, it's just that SE has this habit of giving you something and then nerfing it into pointlessness. In this case by giving so many Boss and mini-boss enemies what amounts to immunity to it all.

I'm fairly sure pacification stops physical abilities that enemies are currently casting from going off. It doesn't interrupt combos, it increases enmity and it reduces our TP usage. I quite like it.

Indeed, but like stun, the more things that become immune to it's effects, the more pointless the skill, and hence the Paladin becomes. It there was a base chance of the pacification landing that scaled up/down based on the level difference between the player and the enemy, I think that would be better than simply giving so many things the ability to ignore our status attacks.