The Problem(s) with Paladin

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There is a skill barrier with paladin. Warrior just needs an ice pack from the friction of rolling your face across the keyboard.

Very good point.

When playing PLD, you are constantly busy and having to monitor MP, HP, Hate and the actions of the mob. Playing WAR is rather straight forward and offloads a decent portion of its work to the WHM.

In regards to player workload and attention level, I've found PLD (FFXIV) to be more reminiscent of NIN (FFXI), where WAR (FFXIV) plays like PLD (FFXI).