A proposed change to Bulwark to make Paladin more relevant.

[Anger]

In the current content DRK holds an edge in magic based encounters as well as a DPS lead over the Paladin.

In an effort to compensate for the Paladins lack of competitive DPS and magic mitigation I propose this change to the Bulwark skill.

Bulwark: For 15s the block rate is increased by 60% and the shield is imbued with a magic barrier allowing it to intercept magic damage.

[rawker]

Ok. What about physical-heavy fights? Shall we let Dark Mind mitigate a fraction of physical damage to compensate?

[Faeon]

Sounds nice, but would need to drop the cooldown on Bulwark.

[ZDamned]

If you think Paladins are irrelevant, you are blind, insane, and a sheep to these forums.
Most successful raid group that use Dark Knight instead of Paladins Still have that Dark Knight swap to Paladin for A2S.

All other content in the game is face roll easy, and Paladins only do 5% less damage than a Dark Knight in IDEAL PERFECT situations in Sword Oath. Once in Shield Oath, their DPS is within 3%. Just using Fight or Flight keeps them in line WAY more than enough to over compensate for the crazy higher up-time on their Cool-downs as well as % of mitigation provided by them.

[ValkyrieL]

What is with all this pld threads... What happened to all the DRk. Been the worse tank...

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

What happened to all the DRk. Been the worse tank...

Its a revolving door. The DRK threads will be back in a few weeks.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

Pld is relevant just whiners that need to git gud

[Ralvenom]

Each tank has its own niche. If you want to be a magic-mitigation tank, then play DRK. If you want to be the physical mitigation tank, play PLD. If you want to be the OT/dps tank, play WAR. It's not hard.

[Wournsfeik_Untawhasyn]

And if you want to be 'best tank' you level and get awesome with all three. SE will adjust the jobs as they deem necessary once they've seen performance over the long term period.

[Launched]

Sure, just make Raw Intuition and Dark Dance work on magic too. After all, having a cooldown that only works on physical isn't fair, right?