Fix paladin. Only Class in the entire game that cannot...

[Fernosaur]

Shield Whatever-the-stun-one-is. I've had more problems stunning on PLD than I do on DRK, but maybe that's just me. Others I've had the discussion with seemed to agree with my assessment, so I just assumed that was the general consensus.

Oh hell naw. Shild Bash being a spammable GCD weaponskill makes it so Paladin can chain stun mobs during trash pulls, which makes for great mitigation, and also so that they can run around stunning ads in mechanics in which you want to prevent a target from reaching X location, like the gels in A3, the Plasmas in A6S or the True Heart in A7. This is part of Paladin's utility and why our stun is imo superior to other classes.

The downside, ofc, is that it interrupts your combos if you have to throw it out to interrupt THAT ONE attack from the boss, but hey, I'd rather have that than make our chain-stunning skills the same boring 20s CD as the other tanks. The classes are already monotonous as they are.

Plus, Shield Bash is suuuper strong in PvP!

[Helosie]

Personally I'd like to see the oath's have added effects.
Shield oath: add's a thorns abilities, reflecting damage back to targets. (10 potency)
Sword oath: increase attack speed by 5%.

[zuzu-bq]

Fix Paladin, the only job that cannot sprint decently with their weapons drawn.

[Brannigan]

Fix Paladin, the only job that cannot sprint decently with their weapons drawn.

This is an actual issue but it isn't just paladin. Dark Knight and Ninja have their own kewl sprint animations but the old classes get effed with generic 1h/2h poses.

[zuzu-bq]

This is an actual issue but it isn't just paladin. Dark Knight and Ninja have their own kewl sprint animations but the old classes get effed with generic 1h/2h poses.

Looks super weird when you have a pointy sword and a big shield. We should sprint with our shields frontwards! Would be super cool for screenshots.

[Fernosaur]

Looks super weird when you have a pointy sword and a big shield. We should sprint with our shields frontwards! Would be super cool for screenshots.

I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED THIS UNTIL NOW

[Archaell]

Fix Paladin, the only job that cannot sprint decently with their weapons drawn.

Wait, are you saying that paladin can sprint? I don't even know how does the sprint animation look like ._.

[Brannigan]

Wait, are you saying that paladin can sprint? I don't even know how does the sprint animation look like ._.

You should be sprinting almost every dungeon pull

Actually nm dungeons are sleepwalk mode anyway. Do what you want in them. You should sprint around town though it's fun to go fast.

[Jandor]

Swipe is pretty useful in my experience. Basically if you swipe during a physical ability cast, the bar will complete but the ability won't activate. If you do it when no ability is being cast they won't use any cast abilities (physical or magic) for 6 sec or so, which gives you time to line up your global cooldown so you can get the stun from shield bash in.

Not 100% great but pretty handy from time to time.

[Enkidoh]

Swipe is pretty useful in my experience. Basically if you swipe during a physical ability cast, the bar will complete but the ability won't activate. If you do it when no ability is being cast they won't use any cast abilities (physical or magic) for 6 sec or so, which gives you time to line up your global cooldown so you can get the stun from shield bash in.

Not 100% great but pretty handy from time to time.

Shield Swipe only prevents physical abilities not magic, as it afflicts the enemy with the Pacification debuff that prevents weaponskills from being executed (they still telegraph them as you stated, but the effect doesn't occur and the enemy just sits there looking stupid). Hence magic abilities just ignore this (which is what Spirits Within is for with it's Silence effect).

But yes, I agree Shield Swipe's potency is very underestimated - Sheltron ensuring you should be able to use it fairly frequently.