Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
for cover to actually be useful paladin would need to be required.
Why would that be the case? I find situational skills to be much more interesting then forced skills. Tank LB3 is rarely used outside of the fights that force a usage, yet I find all of those moments forgettable. It's an obligatory button press without meaning. They can't compare to the handful of times I've used tank LB3 unplanned and on reaction successfully.

Cover being situational is a success story in FF14. The real problem it has is from being too strongly undertuned in an attempt to balance it when it was at its peak.

I'm not against classes having unique useful utility but the idea that cover makes paladin unique or stand out is a joke, its a skill you shouldn't even have on your hot bar.
Absolutely not true. Not having cover available is objectively making you less useful as a PLD. Cover can very easily save runs.