Concerns about " Getting rid of unused and ineffective actions"

[Lambdafish]

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Are you sure about that? Mitigating things with a press of a button is not unique to PLD, it is present on all tanks, PLD just has hallowed ground which is better (and WAR has ONE mitigation through action skill, storms path falls into the same camp as rage of halone and delerium). Pressing buttons to mitigate does not make PLD. The uniqueness of PLD does come from their support toolkit, WAR has wrath stacks, DRK has dark arts, and PLD has support/CC skills (cover, divine veil, clemency, shield bash, shield swipe (pacify), spirits within, protect, stoneskin).

I've also seen people complain that these skills are useless, but, with the exception of cover, I use these skills frequently in a raid environment (even clemency), which is why this side of PLD should be supported, not hindered by cutting away its cross class skills (I don't want another 3.0 PLD)