Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
you should pick your class instead of picking the class that looks like what you like and then demand it plays the way you like
Sure, but let's not pretend that's what I was doing. Asking for a few of our worse skills to not be SO mediocre is not the same as asking for a complete reworking of the job. You won't find people tut-tutting monks who want One Ilm Punch to not be so useless in PVE. I like the core of paladin. It's fun. It'd just be more fun if Swipe/Veil/Cover/Tempered Will/maybe a couple others got some tweaks to make them more useful in general combat.

These abilities are, sadly, just situational and cannot have anything done to them other than changing them entirely.
Yeah, that's why they should change them. They didn't leave crappy 2.0 Holmgang as it was even though they could have attached the "you can't die" thing to something else.

In my free time, I'm testing a PLD focused on STR/PIE to see how consistently I can cast Clemency. Even with a slightly higher natural MP regen, I still need 3-4 Riot Blades to recover what one cast of Clemency costs, it's way too much.
Paladin gets like 3.7 MP per piety. You're not going to get enough from it to make any difference.