Kneejerk reaction to PLD changes.

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What you quoted literally says in Stormblood PLD uses cover all the time.... NOW, in shadowbringers, it won’t be used anymore because it has been nerfed.

Perhaps it'll be used less, but saying it won't be used at all is a stretch.

I see Paladins use it really effectively right down to the lowest dungeons and trials.

It's superb for preventing someone from dying for an extended period while a healer resolves the situation. Perhaps a healer is casting a 7 second raise and can't heal the rest of the party. They won't have to stop their important cast if a Paladin throws their utility at the situation by covering someone and healing another with Divine Veil up. I have plenty such experiences because roulettes have first timers in by design.

It's a tricky situation because Cover is in the spirit of your oath to protect others, yet is not apart of the Oath Gauge. It makes logical sense for it to be apart of the Oath Gauge from a lore perspective, but might be annoying if you can't fully rely on it being available and for the other reasons you've mentioned.

I'm sorry, let me see if I understand you right. Are you trying to say cover will be just as useful as it is now when it's had 20% mitigation taken off and a gauge cost added on? Cause I don't see the math following that one.

It's not had the 20% mitigation taken off. The 20% damage reduction has just been moved to a trait.