Quote Originally Posted by Brannigan View Post
A paladin shouldn't be replacing a healer slot because paladins are tanks - they need to focus on doing tank things, not spot healing. Evading attacks, holding hate, positioning the mobs, and staying alive should be the tank's primary concerns.

While holy succor is a nice heal, it's on a 10 second cooldown. Sacred Prism>Cure is a pathetic AOE heal. Those two and divine veil can't replace a white mage. Besides that, you can already drop a white mage in many situations. I've done coincounter and mistress with 1 whm and I've heard of people doing the Cutter's Cry bosses with 1 as well. That's all with a warrior tank.

Paladin's mitigation is fine, they just need a little more damage from their combos so they don't slow boss kill speed compared to a warrior and a little bit more HP so they can make some mistakes like warriors can. Being able to parry would be nice, but only really so the Marauder subclass would be less worthless.
They're clearly not going the way of giving it more damage. It's simply not what the PLD is about. I never suggested they were to be a main healer. I suggested that they can tank effectively, especially with them taking such mitigated damage, and they have a strong heal that works best when used on others. Thus if PLD is spot healing in a boss fight, one can viably take 1 less WHM and be quite effective. Not to mention Divine Regen and Cover are quite inviting for melee DDs.

Now, sure people are doing some bosses with WAR tank and WHM healer, but there's no denying that it is challenging. That option is still available, but a damage mitigation effect on PLD would bring it out of the WAR's shadow. It wouldn't be that WAR is straight up better no matter what. It'd be more like WAR can be better for some instances. For others people who chose to do WAR tank with one WHM would deserve that benefit due to the challenge.

The point is, a PLD tank with a single WHM should feel natural and safe, whereas a WAR tank with a single WHM should continue to be a challenge.