Paladin feels miles ahead of the other tanks in terms of overall play in this game.

[Nedkel]

Have you played other tanks?

PLD is best tank in the things that in the grand scheme of things does not matter, because the tools he has are often unreliable and simply put not needed all the time.

Intervention and Cover for example will make no to little difference when used frequently, using those will hinder your deffensive abilities because they cost gauge.
Passage of arms is only useful in transitions where you cant attack your target, if you use it anywhere else its going to cost your team a lot of dps
Divine veil needs a heal and does not give you a shield as a caster, so who really cares if dps has 10% shield or not, its not going to help healers all that much to be significant, Shake it off is a lot better, does not need target, 15% max hp, does not require anything else.
Clemency is a pure DPS loss and you should avoid using it.

All those 5 support abilities he has have their drawbacks which makes them more of annoyance to use instead of a real advantage over other tanks.
What PLD is lacking is sustain which does not cost him his DPS.

His DPS is not all that higher than the DRK or WAR, its not even a 1% difference in dps.

Where warrior could heal himself to full for free and DRK could tank everything left and right all what paladin has is his 20% dmg reduction sheltron which cost gauge and lasts only 6 seconds. He is interesting to play but far away from being the best.