Paladin Cover Exploit - something needs to be done!

[punki]

First up an explanation for everyone who isn't aware of whats going on lately in Frontlines

Paladins have the option to Cover people and making them immune to every way of being interrupted while still being able to interact with hotspots.
This means that in Frontlines like Osnal Hakkair two premade people can win an entire match on their own while the rest just stands there and just has to take it.

Imagine it like this:
There is a big fight over a flag, Team Yellow with 15 people against Team Red with 20 people, Team Blue comes in with a Paladin and a random other player, the Paladin simply uses all of his cooldowns including Guard, Covers the other random blue player and they can simply take the flag before anyone can really realize or even do something about it, since the duration of Cover is way more than enough to get the job done.

Sure, you can now say that Monk for example might have a way to counter this play, but lets be real here. Until the Monk even notices whats going on, the time to counter the play is already over.

This gameplay exploit gives way to much of an advantage by almost no risk involved at all. Some might call it "clever use of gameplay mechanics".. you will call it that until you lose 7 matches in a row to that crap.

Something needs to be done about this, change Cover that you cant interact with hotspots while being covered, there is no need to be able to do this in the first place.

Some people might now complain that i spread the knowledge about this even more, but thats exactly what i want, more people to complain about it, spread the awareness that Square Enix starts to notice the issue and does something about it

[Nikoto]

It's a known issue, will probably be fixed. There's like two other threads recently on this. One was bumped just yesterday.

[JamieRose]

It's a known issue, will probably be fixed. There's like two other threads recently on this. One was bumped just yesterday.

Like most "known issues" it will get fixed in six months to a year, if at all.

[Deveryn]

Now it's well known and there's more of a tendency to try and fight cheese with cheese.

[Cidel]

If you took the time to look only like 6 threads down on the PvP boards, you'd see this issue already has a couple threads and discussion.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...n-Onsal-Hakkar
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...sal-Hakair-Map

[tsuchii]

Fight fire with fire. Get into the strat too.
It's not an exploit if the ability is built that way.
Git gud and counter it. Warrior pull, dancer and reaper fear, kill the guardian pally asap etc.

[Yukimin]

Git gud.

This. Enough said.

[Mandudez]

Fight fire with fire. Get into the strat too.
It's not an exploit if the ability is built that way.
Git gud and counter it. Warrior pull, dancer and reaper fear, kill the guardian pally asap etc.

It's an accepted bug. That is literally the definition of exploit lol...

[Kuroka]

Fight fire with fire. Get into the strat too.
It's not an exploit if the ability is built that way.
Git gud and counter it. Warrior pull, dancer and reaper fear, kill the guardian pally asap etc.

Thats like sayin "yeah they abuse that LB glitch but whatever lets just to the same!"

Its cheap, its lazy, its just wrong...

If it were like, you can cover one 3 sec, like in, you got the spot, started claming it and the enemy just storms in trying to interrupt you, then you pala may get that last few sec to help you... but not "ok imma walk up between 30 ppl and you watch me steal it :3"

EDIT:

WAIT... do the patchnotes really dont say anything about pala??

[Garten]

I did a match today where i saw a dancer lb and a reaper lb not working. In another One i was a Warrior and in One oovoo i tried puling the covering tank, that did not work too.. (i tried going farther than 10 yalms but apparently the game did not recongnize the distance in time?).
I challenge everyone to post a video on a working counter to this strategy.
The only two that i found so far are:
-doing the same
-killing/stopping all pld while they are still far from node