Pal is not a DPS tank

[hakurou46]

cover+hallowed

damage packets from cover are not mitigatable by hallowed. but i understand what you mean

Storm's Path and Reprisal+Delirium are better than anything PLD brings.

covering the healer in A9S while they kite mobs is kinda good, and I'm going to argue that Divine Veil would negate about 2,5k damage from an aoe blast these days, and those are most often around 12k at most (so Divine Veil does twice what Path or Reprisal does... but only once every two minutes.)

And that's their main problem. Not that their support kit is missing some vital piece, but that it's just... underpowered by virtue of the other tank classes being able to do similar tricks. And that's hard to balance around without making PLD essential for content.

[Ultimatecalibur]

covering the healer in A9S while they kite mobs is kinda good, and I'm going to argue that Divine Veil would negate about 2,5k damage from an aoe blast these days, and those are most often around 12k at most (so Divine Veil does twice what Path or Reprisal does... but only once every two minutes.)

Divine Veil is a 3k+ shield on a 90 sec timer at i260.