What happens when.....

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

Your new Paladin seems pretty fun to play. I like your writing, your thread was enjoyable to read even if it's not "perfect". I personally don't think PLD especially needs an entire re-work, but they indeed do need some kind of tweaks. I like your stacks idea and I would be pleased to see something like that coming up in the future for PLD. The current gameplay of this job is quiiiiite boring and this would be pretty refreshing.

I usually don't like suggestion threads (there is already a shitton of them for PLD), because they are often really extreme and I prefer waiting to see what the devs will bring us. But yours is made with a rare quality and I can only salute that. I hope that this thread will not fall into salty discussions and will stay constructive.

All suggestion threads should be like this. Thank you OP.

Thank you for your kind words. I really hope this forum thread sets the internet on fire, figuratively of course, because I truly believe this will set Paladin up for success and consideration in the future. This kind of setup means Paladins, both currently and in the future, would be able to use both offensive and defensive spells as well as possible ailment curing abilities and status inflicting spells in such a way that we will be able to assist the party in meeting tank, dps, and healer checks without being a requirement to progress. It's plain to see that currently Paladin offers no real reason to include them in raid progression due to not only hard enrage DPS checks but the fact that regardless of content ALL tanks can handle the tankbusters easily. I imagine this will remain the case in the future as well, even if the next raid tier is "mostly physical." Paladins will still fail DPS checks and offer an only half complete toolkit.