Greetings.

First things first, i've been playing this game since 1.0,
i have 15 level 50s and i've been tanking stuff ever since the first month of Final Fantasy XI.
I'm not exactly what you would considder new to this. I have a lot of free time and thus a lot of experience playing the game.

But this speedrun stuff is getting me really frustrated.
It seems that even at ilvl 97 i cant seem to properly keep hate on large groups of monsters as a Paladin. At all.
I understand the concept of it, i make absolutely sure Shield Oath is up at all times, and i've been doing what people have been telling me (spam flash till out of MP, use Circle of Scorn when it's up) all the time, but people still shred hate off me with ease.

It feels a Paladin that isnt allowed to use it's 3-skill enmity combo is pathetic when it comes to dealing with anything in a group. Especially with Circle of Scorn having no real enmity modifiers as well.
Whenever i'm on my Black Mage, i can see Warriors throw around Overpower's and Flashes and nothing between here and Dalamut can get the monster's attention off him. Even if he's holding 10 of them at once. But that's a warrior, once i take up that same spot on Paladin, stuff just goes everywhere and nothing short of comparing their mothers to Goobbues gets them back towards you (for a second).

It's becomming immensely frustrating, up to the point where i barely even play my Paladin, or where i would even rather eat the 30 minute penalty the moment someone brings up that i should speedrun the dungeon i ended up in.
So help? anything? words of encouragements at the very least?

There's nothing working as intended with Paladin in this state. It might be fine for endgame, but by the twelve it's weak in dungeons...