Suggestion: Cover

[Domira]

How is situational not useful? There are even fewer times where I would want to use the proposed changes to it.

PLD finally feels like it has a complete toolkit. Sheltron, and even Divine Veil were nice additions. Saved several groups with Clemency and RA/GB are no brainers.

Cover is just one of those tools in a toolkit. It's like saying Holmgang is not useful as again it is situational.

But Holmgang has a definitive purpose, that can be applied to a variety of circumstances in both pve and pvp. Cover in comparison is very niche in pvp, there aren't many if any times that one needs to use cover. In pvp cover is a must since healers are the primary target. In pve this type of circumstance rarely happens since the tank maintains control over mobs. Maybe it would be a bit more useful if it could also redirect magic damage as well.

[GeekMatt]

Situational is never useful.

That's silly. It's a life-saving ability, how is saving the party from wiping not useful? I think what you mean to say is "situational skills are where player ability matters"

There are also planned applications for Cover, such as to avoid having to tank swap, or the aforementioned letting someone else (healer) gather mobs.

[Brannigan]

It's been a while since I messed around with it, but as I recall as long as the person you are covering is facing the monster you can block. If they have their back to it then you cannot.

[RayneBoemir]

I like cover as is I just wish it could be used in more situations. I think the best usage in recent memory is preventing holy shield bash in a certain dungeon and let's not forget on earthshakers but that's old content.

[Khalithar]

@OP that sounds like an idea for a new Pld raid cooldown that wouldn't necessarily be a bad one. WoW's paladin had a simialr move, but it also had a secondary effect where once the pld took 40 or 50% (I forget the exact number) of their max hp, it ended prematurely, that would stop it from being an instant death on the paladin.

As for Cover, it's situational and an ability I rarely find myself needing, there are only two situations where I use cover with any regularity:

Saving someone that fails to get behind the icicle in Slowcloak, it saves them from Fenrir's Bite attack that he follows up with to finish off whoever gets frozen but you can only do it once or twice before the fight is over. The second time is in Fractal when you're dpsing the node that spawns adds, I usually just pop Cover on the healer as the adds get close so I can absorb the first few stray hits while I round up everything.

[pandabearcat]

I think a few changes to cover is enough.

1. A longer range. I'd say 150% of what is currently there.
2. Also takes 50% of the magical damage taken by target.