The 20% damage reduction on paladin for FL feels harsh.

[Commander_Justitia]

When I play drg it is similar though, it will do 1,2k-3k on targets with its normal skills too. Like doing normal rotations has almost no value, unless you are with 4-6 people on a target. I think what is missing is autoattack damage, offglobals, critical damage, buffs - they removed most over time. But those would be big changes.

What you can do now as paladin in solo is, distracting. You can lure 5 people on you, make them chase you, use your holy shield wall, kite them around obstacles to make them lose line of sight. Stun them, slow them, use aoe range combo to selfheal, and if you get low you use your lb and recover your recuperate and purify for after it. And then you just wasted 50s or more of a few people, that can't contest your node.

Paladin with paladin synergy is very crazy in frontline btw. It would be similar to the bug with whitemage stacking dia (10% vulnerabiltiy debuff) in the past. If everyone would go paladin in your party, you will have 80s 33% mitigation buff in 120s. While -50% frontline mitigation. If people just say numbers 1-8 at the start in which order they use lb lol.
And in the 40 remaining seconds you are having 20% holy shield wall mitigation, you will have cover and guard. Literally all paladin party, should be 100% win. Nobody will touch tanks anyway, the enemies will run away.

[Mawlzy]

Nobody will touch tanks anyway, the enemies will run away.

My experience is tanks are getting focused in FL, in part because there are so few of them on the field. PLD is likely the exception simply because of its invuln. Although that doesn't prevent less-observant players from pounding on it while in that state.