How would you improve the Paladin's Cover skill?

[Seku]

Hot take, but remove it, intervention is a better general version of it.

If really wanting to keep it, allow knight benediction and Knights resolve to be placed on the paladin. Cover, like shield bash is really niche and is something that isn't hard required in any content making it mostly button bloat. Intervention also does what cover use to do when it was good, which is putting up damage reduction on the PLD and providing an additional cool down. The only difference is that the PLD doesn't take the hit and tank swaps are now needed, which the former is what we'll be back to more than likely.

Cover is more a skill for if there isn't a dedicated-tank or enmity actually matters, which the game design of FF14 doesn't support, except on the rare occasion where a party member gets attacked and typical aggro mechanics don't apply. But we know that they'll live, otherwise PLD would be hard required, and SE won't do that. Though maybe...??? It's still possible to cheese some mechanics with it, but outside of that it's pretty useless.