I'm Gonna Miss Stoneskin

[Knahli]

....I never considered this. Seldom though I use it outside of PvP, I really would be sad to lose Stoneskin ;_;

[Culfinrandir]

We actually have no idea what's happening with the battle system in 4.0. It's possible that all tanks get access to stoneskin as a standard action. It'd make sense as it's a tank-style buff that makes you able to take greater damage. Who knows? Let's not panic just yet.

[bardaboo]

Give pld berserk instead

[RokkuEkkusu]

I myself use Stoneskin during fights as Paladin to supplement my defensive cooldowns so others can help dps and/or prepare for upcoming mechanics.

I too will mourn the loss of Stoneskin from Paladins should it happen in 4.0. Hopefully Paladins will get some worthwhile cross-roles skills to compensate.

[Valenth]

Imho it's the single most usefull skill in all the cross-class skills for PLD. Would be a shame indeed if we lost it without something else in return. xP

[Venoshock]

don't worry, paladin is getting a huge buff next expansion as we all know \o/

I can't wait to see what it is, hopefully lots of new OGCD attacks and abilities to make the class more dynamic. If anything, it'd be cool if it got more AOE abilities or atleast put take away circle of scorns CD and make it consume MP instead. Even though it'd be somewhat similar to dark knight if they do this, it'd still make the class more fun to play, also you gotta remember there are people that play PLD for RP purposes and/or because they just like the aesthetic of paladins sword and shield. I'd take that over stone skin any day.

[Blueyes]

I'm more worried about the possibility of Summoner losing Resurrection. Similar to how Rampart and Shadowskin are being merged, they could do the same with Raise which then gets made into a healer role skill. Scholar will still have access to it and Summoner will have space freed for new a new ability, but they would lose a pretty useful utility spell. (And to a lesser extent, Paladin as well.)

[ADVSS]

I'm more worried about the possibility of Summoner losing Resurrection. Similar to how Rampart and Shadowskin are being merged, they could do the same with Raise which then gets made into a healer role skill. Scholar will still have access to it and Summoner will have space freed for new a new ability, but they would lose a pretty useful utility spell. (And to a lesser extent, Paladin as well.)

ive thought the same as well.,, maybe red mage will be built with that in mind. BLM/SMN losing physik not so important but SMN losing Res would be a hard pill to swallow

[Jandor]

The dev team aren't averse to just copy/pasting abilities and changing the name. We may lose access to stoneskin, but I hope we'll just get a copy of it back as a native PLD skill.

[Evaddaragon]

Well, PLDs in FFXI can cast Phalanx, albeit at a high level. There's a chance we get such a spell in Stormblood.