I don't even think Clemency is what is "taxing" Paladin this time around anyways. I'd rather see Cover be less of a totally niche skill and at least return a portion of its mitigation to justify the 50 gauge cost vs Holy Sheltron + Provoke / Intervention. Or have some of the healing effects introduced at Lv82+ be moved down a bit so it isn't so top-heavy in that regard.

Also please put a built-in Awareness (can't be hit by critical hits) effect into Sheltron so Paladin doesn't feel like utter pain when doing old content with random (all pre-80 content) or forced criticals (Dun Scaith: Diabolos Hollow, O3S: Critical Hit buster, Shinryu EX: Tera Slash). Having your Sheltron be completely deleted because you can't block a critical hit is just dumb since Awareness got removed.

I think since Paladin seems to be within about 5% of DRK's dps numbers, I consider it fine. If anything, I want DRK to be reworked and be tuned down.