Ideas for Paladin Skill Changes

[Xenosan]

My thought on PLD is AoE > Enmity. It always has been a shortcoming. It's more prevalent now with tanks potentially outputting damage close or equal to DPS jobs. Reading your adjustments I think it's fair to say you fall into the camp of, "PLD defense don't compensate for the DPS gap." I understand that for sure.

But with the whole Hybrid Melds and Tank Damage Calculations stuff happening now I'm pretty confident their gonna clip those wings. An across the board reduction like that narrows the gap, and maybe the argument of PLD having a Shield + HG is justified better.

So for me it hasn't changed. IMO first order of business is give PLD friggin AoE.

And please no not adding Potency to Flash. That's adding insult to injury. If that's the solution then it should have been done 2 years ago.

Royal Authority. When combo'd let it be an AoE like Flare. 340+ Potency to the main target, diminished Potency on the subsequent targets hit. The diminishing returns prevent PLD from being some AoE monster, but at least the added potency would let PLD hold on to enmity just long enough for the next CoS to come off CD.

Then we'd be better capable of correctly using Flash as a Debuff Spell; not a needAggroz button.

Really the longer I stay away from PLD (using DRK now) the more absurd I find it that they seriously did not give PLD an AoE via the Heavensward Level Cap increase.