Quote Originally Posted by Astrelle_hyperion View Post
Personally, I love cover and wish it were more useful. But I think that would require making it cross class able so all tracks have it.
Cover is an awesome skill, really. But it needs to cover for magic damage as well if it intends to get used more, in my opinion. Range is debatable, if only because people have a bad habit of running instead of staying in one place while that glowing tether protects them. For this purpose, I imagine it gets either more or less use in the raid scene, where statics tend to know each other's moves better than the typical duty finder.

But cross classing it? It's a PLD skill, not a GLD skill, and Paladins are typically portrayed as guardians over others, if little else. The Cover skill is a mainstay and distinguishing feature for Paladins over the course of the games and many other settings. And it's a wonderful skill, allowing the PLD to take some of the heat from the MT without making them lose enmity.