How do these changes fix the issues with Paladin?

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The balance does not just concern DPS though. If you gave PLD WAR or DRK-level deeps it still wouldn't fix the rest of their kit which is disjointed and revolves around mechanics that are utterly divorced from eachother with the sole exception of Sheltron for block procs and MP. PLD wouldn't need insane DPS if their utility simply got the fix it deserves, for the same reason that BRDs don't need to do MNK or SMN-level dps. Imagine if they did something (totally unrealistic) like giving Paeon or Ballad to PLD. You could ditch your BRD/MCH and bring an extra caster. BRD/MCH would still have their place in DRK/WAR groups. You could also forgo a DRG for a MNK/NIN since you'd have no ranged DPS needing the piercing debuff. Something like that could open party compositions up to entirely new possibilities. As I said, its highly unlikely. But balance is something that concerns the entire party, not just the tanks.

You could even give PLD abilities to make it function as a healer/tank hybrid, like a Lustrate/Tetra clone and perhaps a Soil/Asylum clone as well. Thus allowing you to forgo a WHM, bring a SCH/AST and allow them to dip into cleric stance far more often. It'd be a totally different playstyle and would fit in with the direction that they've established for PLD. PLD isn't the raging berserker that is WAR and its not the menacing death-dealer that is DRK. Its a protector, a meat shield. They are not going to abandon that design choice any more than they are going to nerf WAR or DRK's DPS.

Giving PLD high personal DPS is A. Not likely to happen and B. Not the only fix to the problem.