The one thing I really want for Paladins

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It doesn't matter what type of follow-up healing there is if everyone is dead before because they didn't have sufficient shielding and mitigation to survive the hit.

Any party wide attack that a Warrior/Paladin (and in theory Paladin/Dark Knight) composition can survive is survivable by a Warrior/Dark Knight composition that does not have Divine Veil. If the Healers can handle a heal check during for a Warrior/Dark Knight composition then the can usually handle the same check with a Warrior/Paladin composition without needing the Paladin to use Divine Veil. This leads to lazy Paladins not using the ability because they see that the party does not need it to complete content. I don't like this mentality but I admit that the mentality does exist.

You bring up Path. Okay, the only people who will say Path is bad, underutilized, or otherwise are the people who got carried to clears by their gear. They should not be talking about job / skill balance because their perception is skewed by gear balance. Everyone that knows the truth about Path knows that it's one of the best skills in the game. The same is true for DV. DV is not underutilized when in early prog you are planning your raid mitigation around skills like DV.

You were the one who brought up Path first and I full agree that it is one of the best defensive abilities in the game, but I believe that the general non-raiding population doesn't use Path or Divine Veil as much as they should/could use it because they can't really see how good they are.

Most raiders are not the ones underutilizing abilities like Path, DV and Tempered Will and are often the ones wishing that recast timers were shorter so that they can use them more.

Like I said, if your argument is that a skill is underutilized because it's not necessary in EX Primals after over gearing, then you can say maybe 90% of the skills in the game can be underutilized.

No, its underutilized because to many of players playing Paladins fail to use Divine Veil when the could/should use it.

In far to many Sophia EX parties just after 3.4 released (i.e. before overgearing, aka during progression) did I end up being the only Paladin using Divine Veil to help mitigate raid wide damage and far to few of the Warriors I was paired with would use Path to help lighten the load on the healers. This sort of stuff is why I feel that they are underutilized.