The thing that singlehandedly destroyed paladin was everyone except pld and blm being put in this stupid buff stacking burst style combat. Letting dots tick while dog 2 occurs would not have made any difference to that. Not to mention the rework was a damage loss overall of ~1.5% or so.

p8sp2 has completely free uptime and basically no mechanics - you have solved puzzle 1 and solved puzzle 2 where you might have to run out of melee range and for what cost?

p2s wasn't terrible, p3s was probably the best fight in the tier if you could get past the orange, p4s had its moments in both phases.

Actually have half a response, I think your taste is just completely alien