Quote Originally Posted by elioaiko View Post
Part of me wishes they could reverted back to SB's broken state because that was satisfying but I can't really imagine them wanting to do anything with it.

It's just one of those abilities that are either niche or busted.
That was because SB was the first time they introduced ultimate. Prior to that you can get away with slightly wonky balance because you can always "out-gear" the savage content, not so in ultimate. Everything needs to be finely tuned to that one piece of content that 99.99% of the playerbase will never touch. So I guess the real question is if tuning jobs around one content that literally no one is interested in, is good for the game as a whole? Though they couldn't even balance tank dmg since we had issues in P8S so idk tbh.

As for cover it would have been better used as a role skill at like lvl 20 and remove rampart. Rampart in the game is just button bloat as many of the tanks short cds already provide the same effect, and then some. However I see role skills as tech options and not another avenue to gain a mitigation cd. Things like shirk, reprisal, provoke are good examples of what should be role skills. Rampart is no longer needed even for the expansion its designed for because most cases you just over gear it or there are generally better options available to you job exclusively. That being said, the options of how I think cover should function as a role skills are either:

-Functions as it currently is
-Drop a small aoe for one person to stand in, still take dmg from individual
-Small radial aoe passage of arms, <5 yalms

The last two offer unique tech choices. Lets say a healer need to stack away from the party for a mechanic. Drop a cover aoe and they stand in it, even if its >10 yalms. The last option I'm more partial to as in dungeon pulls you can just pop cover and melees don't need to worry about dmg, as long as they are near the tank and the tank can afk for 10-15 secs to grab a drink of water. It could also have a neat aoe animation like Sheltron but a full 360, think of a Roman testudo formation and you get my idea.