Cover should be a Role Action

[Lyth]

I don't think that Cover should be a role action. There are certain actions that are essential to the identity of a job across the series. It's a bit like making Bio Blaster into a role action.

I do think that Cover should be merged down with Intervention to function as PLD's co-tank support ability. Just reduce the recast and turn it into something you can channel on a party member at a fixed gauge cost per second. Bonus points if it makes your character do a little hop over to your teammate taking damage.

[Absurdity]

Just reduce the recast and turn it into something you can channel on a party member at a fixed gauge cost per second.

That would just turn it from a niche ability into a dead one. Nobody wants to stand there in a bossfight and miss several gcds because they have to channel cover.

[Kabooa]

That would just turn it from a niche ability into a dead one. Nobody wants to stand there in a bossfight and miss several gcds because they have to channel cover.

I'm like half certain they meant it as a toggle like Faerie tether.

[Lyth]

Exactly. An oGCD gauge cost over time ability with a shorter recast than it does presently to make it an adequate substitute for Intervention.

[Absurdity]

I'm like half certain they meant it as a toggle like Faerie tether.

Well, the fairy tether is exactly what I described, it's just not you doing it and instead your fairy is unable to do anything else.

Exactly. An oGCD gauge cost over time ability with a shorter recast than it does presently to make it an adequate substitute for Intervention.

So basically exactly what cover does now, just with a cooldown more in line with HoS or Nascent, a more flexible gauge cost and the ability to end it early.

[Rongway]

Before the PLDs and folks who wanna claim it's part of "PLD's identity", I wanna point out that while it's usually the Knight class in FF games that uses it

Knight (ナイト) is the JP name for paladin. The English translators have left it as Knight in many of the FFs, and many of the FFs that have updated their localizations to call it Paladin began as translations that used Knight. JP has used Paladin (パラディン), but it has been rare. So let's not use "Knight gets Cover" as a justification for why Paladin shouldn't be the only job that gets it. Knight and Paladin are the same thing in 95% of Final Fantasy.