As someone coming from ffxi I think paladin is a lot more fun here. In ffxi you literally stood there and took damage and spammed your provoke macro until 100% tp to use a weapon skill or until a damage mitigation buff was up. You had shield bash but it was on a 5 min cooldown so you weren't expected to be the active stunner of the group and there were no little tricks like shield swipe to throw in for pseudo stun. I like that paladin has the ability to actively stun, silence, pacify in this game, the combos are nice and flashy, managing hate on multiple mobs keeps you awake. It's just a lot more active and fun than what I had to deal with in XI, it may not be the most interesting job in the world. But at the end of the day it's a tank. Your job is to shout obscenities at the mob and hope you don't die for it. There's only so much you can do with tank mechanics and I think for the type of game XIV is they did a decent job.