Give PLD something else to spend gauge on.

[Cabalabob]

So in pvp the only thing PLD has to spend oath gauge on is cover. While that’s fine in the usual settings, it does leave specific instances where the gauge is completely useless. e.g. duels or just getting caught in a 1 on 1 fight in general.

Another thing that’s completely useless in pvp is the shield, sure we use it as a weapon for shield lob and bash, but never for an actual block. I mean, we can block giant monsters, magic and explosions, but not some guy running at us with a knife?

So putting these things together what can we do? I say give PLD sheltron in pvp.

Sheltron: Block the next attack reducing damage taken by 25%. Action changes to shield swipe after a block. Costs 50 oath gauge. Recast 5 seconds.
Shield swipe: delivers an attack with a potency of 500, additional effect: pacification 2s.

While this would give PLD something to use in scenarios where they don’t need cover, it won’t be so powerful that you won’t want to use cover appropriately in favour of sheltron due to the high gauge cost for a single hit.

It would make the shield actually work as the defensive tool that it is again and shield swipe would give PLD back that trinity of crowd control, stun, silence, pacify that it used to have in old pvp.

[UserHere]

Even in PVE the gauge is just Sheltron. PLD gauge is so tacked on it's funny. Sheltron could be a 30-45 sec CD and it would hardly change a thing. Unless there is a fight where people build 100 gauge to use it back to back that I'm not aware of.

Hopefully Shadowbringers integrates the gauges with abilities good for all jobs. Like you can tell SAM and RDM were built with their gauges in mind, and some jobs just had to have something (lilies or oath) tacked on.

[Zensho]

It would be cool if each class got one additional pvp ability that they took away, god I miss Full Swing soooo much!!!
The new base platform is there, now I hope they expand upon it in 5.0 and beyond!~

[Lambdafish]

With them dropping TP, I imagine that all MP abilities will be moved to oath gauge. So Clemency, flash, and holy spirit will fill your needs.

[ReiMakoto]

With them dropping TP, I imagine that all MP abilities will be moved to oath gauge. So Clemency, flash, and holy spirit will fill your needs.

I really don't think that will be what happens with the TP rework at all, physical attacks will likely just not cost anything now and the other abilities will still just use MP, the only thing will be physicals won't run out of resource now when AOEing, which is just a nice buff.

[Kurando]

With them dropping TP, I imagine that all MP abilities will be moved to oath gauge. So Clemency, flash, and holy spirit will fill your needs.

You realise OP was talking about the PvP actions right, so it doesn't really matter much what happens to them in PvE.

[Lambdafish]

You realise OP was talking about the PvP actions right, so it doesn't really matter much what happens to them in PvE.

I didn't but regardless I feel like this could happen in PVP too.