Paladin needs to be overhauled

[RyanCousland]

While it is true that Paladin does not exactly do Dark Knight or Gunbreaker levels of damage, Paladin qualifies in other areas that the other tanks may lack.
1.) It has access to an OGCD stun on a short CD. Unlike WAR and GNB, your main damage is not tied to using it and unlike WAR, it has no animation lock and doesn't resposition you
2.) It has the most readily available and arguably strongest self defense in Holy Sheltron (%-mitigation is very strong) without restriction to a conditional buff (GNB Nebula)
3.) Cover alone makes this fair.
Additionally, none of those numbers actually highlight whether a tank focuses on sustained damage (Paladin, Dark Knight, GNB-Tank/Heal) or burst damage (Warrior, Dark Knight-ish, GNB-DPS) nor do they take into account if their effects help the whole team (Onslaught, Plunge). For reference, here is a burst of each tank (2 GCDs max):

PLD - Confiteor (8000) -> Intervene (2000) + Shield Bash (4000) -> Atonement (8000) -> Intervene (2000)
WAR - Primal Rend (8000-8800) -> Orogeny (10000-11000) -> Chaotic Cyclone (8000-8800) [add +5000 dmg depending on if and where Onslaught is placed]
DRK - Plunge (2000) + Shadowbringer (6000) -> Bloodspiller (6000-7600) -> Shadowbringer (6000) -> Bloodspiller (7600-9400)
GNB - Rough Divide (2000) -> Double Down (14400) -> Burststrike + Hypervelocity (12000) [add +12000 Blasting Zone and +2400 on Hypervelocity if DPS Junction]
Burst results:
PLD - 24000
WAR - 26000 without Onslaught, 31000-33600 with and depending on placement.
DRK - 27600 with Dark Arts: Shadowbringer (0HP spent), 31000-ish without
GNB - 28400 without DPS Junction, 42800 with DPS junction

These are the bursts, however the damage potential varies a lot on conditionals. Paladin can extend the multitude of 8000 dmg Atonements over a fair bit of time and has relatively high access to it while Warrior does minimal damage via combo outside of the burst. Dark Knight actually has more potential in sustained damage through multiple instances of Shadowbringer and cycling HP, while GNB damage potential can extend at the risk of overusing Rough Divide (which also serves as HEAL +20% for defensive purposes).

Conclusion - Paladin has very little room for a damage buff given their damage consistency over burst, mitigation and stun access.

I do appreciate the time and effort put forth in this expansion on damage however it does further illustrates my point in PLD being weaker granted i dont care if it is as i said before even in shb it was still pretty weak if remember correctly it was 3rd out of the tanks, being above WAR but despite this it had better utility and sustainability and bottom line it was fun
it has room for damage give intervene the stun effect and replace shield bash with 2 holy spirit and that would be 10x better than what it is now