Quote Originally Posted by Gserpent View Post
Cover has almost no applications in meaningful content, and neither does spamming Clemency. At the absolute best, it lets the PLD drag themselves a tiny bit farther to see the next mechanic, but that comes at the cost of PLD having low DPS and arguably the lowest personal sustain of any tank, so it's kind of pointless - just take a WAR and let them Holmgang and Equilibrium or whatever to see the same stuff.

Clemency and Cover remain effectively useless buttons in *meaningful* content, which means they need to be reworked or removed. No one cares about performance in casual content, because as long as you have a pulse you will clear that content guaranteed.
Not everything has to be a meaningful DPS button. It's why every class is losing its identity and becoming the same as every other. Clemency is one of the main draws for me to paladin. If they're going to turn Clemency into another Equilibrium and remove Cover then I might as well just play Warrior because there's nothing special Paladin now brings.

I don't care that it costs a GCD if means I can use it to save someone or myself when a run is going bad, because (and I know this might be hard to believe for most of you out there) not every boss attempt or dungeon run goes perfectly 100% of the time. People make mistakes, and it's nice to have something to fall back on.

Paladin has its fair share of problems, but changing the class so it plays exactly like the other 3 tanks is not the solution.