Quote Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima View Post
Nobody is going to remove Rampart. Removing Rampart is essentially gutting everyone's kit so they won't have a 20% available. Every tank would be struggling to mitigate the tank damage otherwise, and some jobs (GNB, DRK) would have an abundance to use from to replace Rampart while others (WAR, PLD) would be left in the lurch to not have the mitigation abilities to cover the current damage output from Tank Busters.

Also, there's a problem with your thought for making Cover a role skill at Lv 20:

Imagine having to maneuver around that kind of skill just like you have to maneuver around for a BLM - except worse since it takes up more space and if you sit near it close enough, you'll give the tank damage you could've taken on your own. It sets up for horrible things to happen to the recipient on raid-wides especially, which from your design suggests it to be used for(which is a bad implementation due to damage intake). Taking ~83% damage from all that only to have it apply 8 times over will kill you due to how Cover works currently too. In case people don't know(yet again) Cover does not interact with Defensive Mitigation!

So Sentinel, Sheltron, Bulwark, Rampart, none of those mitigations will interact with Cover; the main reason being cheesing Tank Busters like PLD did in O8S. Cover currently is an archaic ability that needs replacement - and is something we were all hoping to get rid of in 6.3. Looks like we're going to be waiting until 7.0 for them to actually have an answer to Cover being near useless.
With part II of P8S....removing rampart....just...no. My static healers are sweating enough