Is cover REALLY nerfed, or nah?

[Galactimus]

Only one situation has changed for Cover.

A Paladin Off Tank who Covers a Main Tank will not mitigate any damage. Both Tanks have the 20% reduction so there's no point in Covering a Main Tank anymore (unless the Main Tank is out of cool downs.) You are better off using Intervention for 10-35% Mitigation on top of the Main Tank's 20% Trait instead.

So in that regard it did indeed receive a nerf. You use to be able to mitigate a Main Tank's buster by 20% with Cover, now you can't. However, now that we lost Ultimatum (AoE Provoke) as an emergency backup Provoke, Cover will still have it's uses to save the party when the Main Tank dies and Provoke is on cooldown.

[Kalise]

A Paladin Off Tank who Covers a Main Tank will not mitigate any damage. Both Tanks have the 20% reduction so there's no point in Covering a Main Tank anymore (unless the Main Tank is out of cool downs.) You are better off using Intervention for 10-35% Mitigation on top of the Main Tank's 20% Trait instead.

If you're popping Sentinel and/or Rampart to buff your Intervention to 20/25/35% you're better off just using Cover alongside your 20/30/50% DR from using those skills on yourself. Since, it's unlikely that there will be a TB that will NEED stacked CD's + OT support skill to survive (Since if this is the case, then WAR will be mandatory because Holmgang's shorter CD will be necessary as there won't be enough CD's if everyone had to pop either an invuln or literally everything else)

Also, one of the main bonuses for using Cover on the MT, was where you could bypass certain mechanics and Tank swaps by the way that the damage being diverted away from the target worked.

[Big-Isaac]

So in that regard it did indeed receive a nerf. You use to be able to mitigate a Main Tank's buster by 20% with Cover, now you can't. However, now that we lost Ultimatum (AoE Provoke) as an emergency backup Provoke, Cover will still have it's uses to save the party when the Main Tank dies and Provoke is on cooldown.

Not... really. There's no point to ever leaving your enmity stance now, unless you heavily outgear your co tank or your co plain sucks, so odds are you'll almost always be 1st and 2nd on the enmity list anyways. If the MT dies, it boss will just naturally turn and smack the OT instaed