I'd still like to see pld get a gap closer, it's the only melee job that doesn't have one. (Especially in pvp. Holy Spirit is nice, but you still have to do royal authority to build gage/recover mp.) Using the whm analogy isn't right. I think drg is more fitting. People complained about dragon sight and it got fixed, but it had the same range as cover. A pld can't be expected to cover any group member that needs it with that kind of range.