Give us back the old Paladin

[nia_saeli]

Early PLD generally gives this idea of PLD being a "boring tank" Not to mention the sheer amount of buttons that are just taking up space on PLD, I feel like the current PLD we got is more or less been rushed because of how quickly they needed to change it.

I also think they got to look at how they should change abilities on PLD going forth, Situational Utility like Cover, Clemency or Shield Bash while Interesting a lot of the time they fail to be useful, Which I'd say is "fine" but PLD's a Job already suffering from space, I'm afraid if they're not going to be improved upon they could just be removed for the sake of new abilities in 7.0, Which cover and clemency I don't really want to go, both fill the Job identity aspects of PLD, but I'm hoping that you might be actively using them more.

I'm not sure if early PLD is a bad representation though. The current PLD is the least engaging of the tanks for me. It has 5 meaningful GCDs per minute, and it just generally feels boring compared to any other tank. At least before, each GCD mattered and you had the distinct phases of your rotation. Now it feels like a Gunbreaker before you get continuation...



Regarding the situational utility, I apologize if this sounds like I'm going on a rant, but I find it very strange that you say "Situational Utility like Cover, Clemency or Shield Bash while Interesting a lot of the time they fail to be useful" as that's essentially what being a situational utility is. Sometimes it's useful, other times it's not. Situational utility will rarely be useful in an optimized context where people are playing nearly perfectly. Those abilities are for when things go sideways and you need some extra breathing room or to cover the healer to let them LB3.

When it comes to situational utility, should we say the same thing about Shirk being redundant because you can just turn off your stance before your co-tank provokes? Or is it useless because most of the content in the game doesn't require tank swaps? I don't personally find it useless, but the same logic applies in both contexts.

If people don't find cover/clemency/shield bash useful, it's perfectly find to just not bind them and free up 1-3 slots on their hotbars. That's far more healthy than outright removing them to "free up space". Though, personally, I don't find that PLD has that many abilities. I could comfortably fit another 10 or so abilities before I get concerned with space.