The Problem with Paladin

[Phobos]

I dont have a problem taking PLD over GLA and have experienced the issues with running out of MP, however..

I personally have found i dont NEED to be throwing cures to keep hate and i dont use holy succor specifically for hate generation.

My philosophy is:

build hate with sentinal-> Provoke, flash, war drum, ws's, rampart

Increase party survivabilty with holy succor and divine veil. I imagine if i have pugs and drgs around me eating aoe they would be thankfull for a regen from divine veil.

I find that the whm over cure me anyway and by the time i finish casting holy succor it cures for 0, so i save it for other party members which are less likely to get a cure so quickly from the healers.

and tell me poping Hallowed ground when the next hit is going to kill you doesnt completely redeem the job

FYI, you can recover alot of MP in the Ifrit fight by putting your sword away and standing still during jumps, but i realise this isnt normally possible.

I actually tried going into passive mode, and it didn't do much for me. I personally don't use succor for hate generation, but to supplement the WHM's heals.

I was fine on MP until the WHM ran over, used Chainspell Raise on a BLM that had died, and ran back to his spot. during that short time, since I had no stalling moves or free heals, I had burnt my MP and had no way of recovering it, adding pressure to the WHM. This was the first I had run into an issue with PLD really. The point is though, even though PLD can tank (with the right setup, and perhaps we just had poor players that put too much pressure on the WHM), GLA can do it better. Just thinking about the abilities PLD got, none of them match up to what GLA has access to.

Since PLD has no enmity generation tools GLA doesn't have, and no defensive/survivability moves that GLA doesn't have, it's use as a tank is severely limited. The abilities right now just don't warrant using it over GLA.

I will be using GLA over PLD in most cases at this point, I am just hoping this issue can get addressed. I do consider it an issue as PLD is supposed to be a better tank than GLA, and it is not.

EDIT: Not in response to anyone in particular, but the whole GLA is supposed to be more self-sufficient I get, but it's inherent self-sufficiency is a greater asset to tanking than PLD's gain of a few mediocre abilities and supposedly a minor defense buff.