Quote Originally Posted by Galactimus View Post
This is ridiculously silly for Paladins. On patch day Paladins will have lost:

Protect
Stoneskin
Raise (Palace of the Dead)
Bloodbath
Foresight
Mercy Stroke
Pacification (removed Shield Swipe)
Silence (removed from Spirits Within)
Rampart
Provoke
Awareness
Convalescence

Then we have to spend 5/5 Tank Role actions if we want to get our original last five abilities returned. We lose all of that to gain nothing essentially.
We're likely gaining at least a couple of new skills by losing those, so I really don't see the problem. Even if we don't, their ultimate purpose was to reduce button bloat, and being 100% honest, like 80% of what you listed was used very marginally.

Mercy Stroke was nigh useless, Foresight was a mediocre-at-best defensive CD, Bloodbath was awfully underwhelming for PLD (WAR is gonna hurt a lot from losing this, tho), Protect had a very niche use that ofentimes was unnecessary, and Stoneskin was barely used in actual battles without negatively impacting personal DPS. Having Raise in PotD was nice, but it's useless in literally every other piece of content. And iirc, Pacification was only ever useful to stop Ifrit's Eruptions in HM for some reason, lmao.

So, really, I don't see how the loss of all these skills would have any real impact.