Paladin needs to be overhauled

[RyanCousland]

I am glad you made it sure you know, but frankly I will have to repeat certain things since you can't talk about Cover one-dimensionally since it is a synergy-based ability.
1.) Once again, your teammates have skill issues. If your covered teammate insists on running away, that's on them not you.
2.) This isn't PvE, Paladin DPS doesn't matter as much as you want it does and a DPS loss by using Guardian-Guard is smaller than a DPS loss from either you or your teammate dying because that costs your team 15s+ LB charge time + about 20s or more of damage downtime from one player over 5s you not dpsing. If you care this much about your damage, you should give Dark Knight or Gunbreaker a serious consideration.
3.) Correct, this one is match-up dependent, though I kind of expected to not having to mention it.

not sure what your trying to make with the PVE remark, but you seem to misunderstand when i say dps loss im not referring to PLD individual dps (as i have stated multiple times thats not my concern despite it being a flaw) what im referring to is the total dps of the 4v5 scenario in which the guard + cover creates or 3v5 if your teammate is using an elixir, im not against this combination it is indeed useful in certain events few and far between as they are but to praise it or put it on a pedestal is ridiculous

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

not sure what your trying to make with the PVE remark, but you seem to misunderstand when i say dps loss im not referring to PLD individual dps (as i have stated multiple times thats not my concern despite it being a flaw) what im referring to is the total dps of the 4v5 scenario in which the guard + cover creates or 3v5 if your teammate is using an elixir, im not against this combination it is indeed useful in certain events few and far between as they are but to praise it or put it on a pedestal is ridiculous

Let me explain again:

If your teammate is able to Elixir around a corner to avoid death, that is ideal and saves himself a lot of damage lost.
If your teammate has no corner to do so and needs help now, Cover-Guard gives him that moment and it is better he gets to Elixir here while you protect him, saving him damage and limit break charge lost otherwise from dying.

Of course, ideally you never need to Cover-Guard-Elixir if your team strategically reduces the pressure from the enemy team. But the fact that you CAN do that is worth the damage loss from currently having a 3v5 fight for 5 seconds over losing a teammate for 15-20s.