The Bottom Feeders: Moves You Never Use and Why.

[Februs]

Cover - I love the concept behind it but again, it has a long cooldown. I do end up using it twice in A2S (both times on our WHM, lol).

One, CD should be much MUCH shorter.

Two, tether should be longer in my opinion. The proximity restriction tends to make the move even less useful, especially because, for some bizarre reason, a lot of healers I've covered tend to
run away from me. If you see a tether to the Pld, WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY??

Lastly, I always thought Cover needed a slight adjustment. Like a % of all dmg covered should be converted to Hp, or Tp, or have some sort of AoE effect or... something that has synergy with the other tank... just something. That way, we'd have a reason to use it besides actively looking for someone who is standing in stupid. I mean, as it is, if everyone is actually doing their jobs and not being idiots you would never have to actually use Cover. That's silly. I shouldn't have to go out of my way to make use of a CD. It's use should have a readily available use.

[fm_fenrir]

Two, tether should be longer in my opinion. The proximity restriction tends to make the move even less useful, especially because, for some bizarre reason, a lot of healers I've covered tend to
run away from me. If you see a tether to the Pld, WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY??

Every single fight with a tether mechanic ends with Bad Things if you ignore it. Cover's visual cue literally says "run away", based on previous content experience.

[Februs]

Every single fight with a tether mechanic ends with Bad Things if you ignore it. Cover's visual cue literally says "run away", based on previous content experience.

This made me laugh pretty hard, but it is very true lol. Maybe I should come up with a macro for Cover as well... so they are less alarmed when I use it (if ever).

[Ashkendor]

Awareness is.. meh.

Amusingly, it's arguably more useful for warriors than for paladins.

One, CD should be much MUCH shorter.

Two, tether should be longer in my opinion. The proximity restriction tends to make the move even less useful, especially because, for some bizarre reason, a lot of healers I've covered tend to
run away from me. If you see a tether to the Pld, WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY??

I've seen people react the same way to MCH's Bishop turret. I can only surmise that they think it's a mob mechanic.

Lastly, I always thought Cover needed a slight adjustment. Like a % of all dmg covered should be converted to Hp, or Tp, or have some sort of AoE effect or... something that has synergy with the other tank... just something. That way, we'd have a reason to use it besides actively looking for someone who is standing in stupid. I mean, as it is, if everyone is actually doing their jobs and not being idiots you would never have to actually use Cover. That's silly. I shouldn't have to go out of my way to make use of a CD. It's use should have a readily available use.

I agree that it should have something extra that goes with it. As it stands now, it's really situational; basically unless a raid mechanic requires it (Akh Morn comes to mind, covering my OT while he Holmganged the space laser was always one of my favorite points in the fight) we only end up using it if someone stands in stupid one too many times and is about to die. Honestly, my static only uses it in A2S so we can be lazy and abuse the WHM's massive aggro generation to get mobs stacked up in the right place quickly for stuns.