The Problem with Paladin

[Shiggysonson]

I think my issue is the jobs are supposed to be clearly better for party play while classes are better for solo, and it is apparent that the gains for PLD in either party or solo are not enough to warrant using it at all. Even if you have a BRD (which is now just doing ballad to make up for the PLD's MP recovery loss, and therefore making it difficult/impossible to buff others) GLA can still recover more MP and use it more than PLD can.

Then the problem isn't paladins not being able to manage MP; it's the fact that gladiator MP is just as useful for tanking as paladin MP.