How would you improve the Paladin's Cover skill?

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Personally I there are two ways to fix cover.

1. Drastically reduce the oath cost, or simply remove the oath cost. In addition to that, drastically lower the cooldown which is CRAZY long to begin with. Intervention is by and large, hands down, BETTER then cover and also gives knights benediction/resolve plus the damage mitigation. This is why I believe cover should just be "traited up" to be intervention. I don't even have cover on my hotbar, and it hasn't been there since HW. This is one avenue to fix cover.

2. Change cover to a "dance partner" buff that you can give to another party member of your choice. The buff gives them block chance mitigaion while the buff is active and they are in range. While the party member you cast the buff on takes less damage, the paladin now gains oath every time the person you cover get's hit results in a block. Paladins no longer generate oath off of auto attacks, but off of blocks. This would basically make it so that if i'm blocking I gain oath, if my cover partner blocks I gain oath. If we BOTH block I gain oath. This would synergize with Holy Sheltron and give crazy amounts of oath during large pulls much like it was back in HW with bulwark and how it gave you stupid amounts of oath to feed your sheltron.

Other changes I would make with #2 change in mind.

Passage of Arms spreads the cover buff to the party and every block they absorb gives you oath. Passage of Arms duration is now 6 seconds instead of the ridiculous 18 seconds it is now.

Change Devine Veil now uses Oath and now procs off of a block, and gives the party a one time block chance with a heal.

Shield Bash now uses Oath gauge and is a damage dump instead of an interrupt.

Royal Authority morphs into Atonement once the Royal combo is completed.

Trait up Circle of Scorn to Confiteor. Confiteor is now a ground AOE that lasts for 60 seconds with a potency of 15. Each tick of the DOT restores HP with a potency of 10 and this extended to your Cover Partner as long as they are in the circle. Confiteor is essentially a spell, but it looks and acts like a weapon skill. Let's make it a spell.

I could go on....but this WILL NEVER HAPPEN....pipe dreams.