Paladin get's skills WAY too late.

[mallleable]

There are a lot of junk upgrade traits that can be removed which will allow more spell blade stuff to be moved to lower levels. Spirits Within, and Expiacion should just be the same ability, and at level 50 it grants Confiteor when used. Requiescat, and Imperator should also just be the same abilities as well, and because Confiteor was moved to 50, the Blade of Valor chain can be moved to 80 or even 70.

[Commander_Justitia]

Whenever newbies stack 2 sharemarker that give magic vulnerability, you can prevent a full party wipe by covering a healer and staying out of the stack.
So even in more casual content, I use it more often than not. Also during knockback mechanics when someone isn't pressing immunity or when they stand at the wrong spot. Cover also is useful for savage for tankbusters so you dont need to swap. It is useful for mechanics that drop puddles on you, as they wont even appear then. I think its a great skill.

Shield Bash is a good skill for palace of the dead as you have unlimited stuns in row.

What should be talked about is, where are the dots? where is the incoming damage in most duties that require me to use my defensives and be healed? why do I have a shield, when blockrate has no interactions anymore with anything else?! why does every tank have the same kind of defensive cooldowns? where is aggro management? Am I a tank or just a dps with 3 mitigation buttons?