Paladin balance changes suggestions

[AbremSev]

I dont think Paladin is less picked as a MT because the job is weak(er), but because they make for better OTs with their current toolkit - which has been the case for a couple of expansions now and isnt really a problem in my book?

Besides: Even if paladin might be a slightly worse choice for MT, its still absolutly possible to have a paladin MT - as is pretty much any party combination in the game. People really need to get unstuck on their meta and thinking that just because the meta dictates something, thats the only way to do it...

I'm half expecting paladin to become a dedicated OT with Endwalkers, to be honest (and again: Nothing wrong with that and no, you're still not expected to use Clemency to heal yourself. Thats an "oh shit"-button. Which is fine.)

Sure it's possible for PLD to MT they're just so much more of a pain in the ass to deal with than the other tanks though. Also being an OT isn't always an option in every fight, like Leviathan Unreal basically has two MT, M/F from O12s, TEA, even the time they have to hold the boss in UCOB they're just a worse experience to deal with as a healer and there's no real reason for them to be so squishy.

On top of that their kit is just jank.. Veil for instance requires a GCD heal to pop except I'll never heal with a GCD unless we would wipe without it. It's literally cheaper for me to pop a bunch of ogcds than to gcd heal the tank and pop veil even with the mitigation gains. The only time it's helped this tier was on Shiva ice phase on E12s and shadowdog melee uptime cheese. Consider that this is supposed to be the ability that paladin gets one less personal mitigation cd for the other poster in this thread mentioned.

But yeah it's pretty obvious now that the reason they're so much of a pain in the ass heal is because their job is actually balanced around using Clemency at least occasionally. The fact that they don't just means that the healers have to make up the difference and this costs healers a ton of DPS in the situations that Paladin actually has to tank something for a longer period of time.