Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
No, you just put blinders on. It's not because it's not called Cover that suddently "taking hits for someone else" is not the iconic PLD ability... No, it's not. Cover is an action that redirects hits. Meaning it also redirects additionnal effects linked to those hits, which no other ability does.
OH, so what you're saying is - that it's possible for SE to make similar support abilities to assist in dealing with damage to a particular party member without having to copy/paste existing ones?

Yeah, almost like PLD was designed to bring something more valuable as an OT than a MT...
I don't recall Cover being limited to whether or not you are actively tanking an enemy.