Possible Paladin Rework...

[Jubez187]

PLD is weak in design notice I said DESIGN not in practice. In practice it is a very useful class, however it lacks in design for a few reasons:

1. They blue-ballsed the magic side. Riot Blade is never used after RoH is obtained. You are never at a loss of MP. Most of the Cross Class skills are useless. Cure would be cool if our MND wasn't god awful. They could have at least given PLD esuna.

2. RoH is your bread, your butter, your cake, and you eating it too. Highest damage, highest enmity, a little mitigation/utility. Really trounces any other thing you could do. Not that there is any other combo to do ANYWAYS, but still.

3. Oath stances are okay, could be a little more in-depth. Affecting shield skills in Shield Oath and Sword Skills in Sword Oath would have been vastly greater. +50 potency(or whatever number) to sword skills in Sword Oath. And umm...shield skills are now off-GCD in Shield Oath (along with it's original effects). Something like that. Also, take off GCD. It makes stance dancing impossible in this game. Even for quick DPS checks like Spumes in levi-ex.

4. 3 CC's!..... that don't really matter cause every boss is immune. Sad day. I love cancelling all of Diabolos's spells as a Paladin. I loved cancelling Ifrit interruptions. This is a great feature, but not exploited by SE at all.

5. An insurmountable amount of unengaging mitigation skills. Make. Them. Stop. If you needed to give PLD 10 mitigation skills for them to survive, then there's something wrong with the game.


EDIT: This is not even remotely close to the first topic to ever bring up Paladin's lack of....well, fun-ness? I think at first SE thought we were just jealous of the WAR love from 2.1, but it's increasingly becoming more and more of a topic that PLD is just 1-2-3 at its core. Not saying that there aren't good/bad PLD's out there, but this class has MUCH MORE potential than what we have right now, and I think this whole sub-forum could agree on that 100%.