Is Paladin the least fun class to play?

[Enkidoh]

I disagree Sword Oath is useless - you're not in a party 24/7, and there are plenty of times where the game forces you to solo. That's when you use Sword Oath. It gives a noticeable boost to your attacks, but naturally at the expense of the added defense you would get with Shield Oath. And when you're on your own, you only have yourself to heal and hence often it's just better to get the battle through as quickly as possible rather than trying to mitigate damage.

But yes some of the meagre cross-class abilties we get are not quite as good as they should be (like Cure, which normally would be very useful, isn't because PLD has no MND bonuses and hence the spell is very weak potency wise). PLD doesn't get the Proshell trait that CNJ gets which turns Protect into Wall, and hence subbed Protect is much weaker (only giving extra defense against physical attacks rather than physical and magic). Ditto with Raise etc etc.

Either way, I love PLD (and GLA it stems from) - GLA was my original starting class in 1.0 (and started in Gridania too no less!), and it hooked me ever since. I just find it a fun class and Job to play as.