Quote Originally Posted by Madruk View Post
As I've said before a million times, extra defense won't help the paladin because you can 1 heal pretty much everything anyway.

Until there's content that justifies the use of a "heavy" tank, they'll be a useless class.
PLD isn't even a heavy tank. It needs just as much heals as a WAR and can't even spare to repeatedly throw it's own Holy Succor around on others. Thus, it is undesirable as it isn't worth the massive lack in damage.