I think most Paladins are in agreement that Cover is mostly useless; which is unfortunate since it's THE iconic skill of the job in Final Fantasy.
I understand how broken Cover was in SB, so I won't suggest just reverting the skill to that. Rather than that, I would really like to see it be converted into also providing a Bulwark like ability. How I see it would be re-designed is:
1) Still requires a party member to use, still provides the cover effect.
2) Add ability +60% to block rate through duration of cover. This would work on both direct incoming damage and damage incoming through the cover effect.
3) Drop the gauge requirement, put it on a 120 sec cooldown.
This would provide the "filler" personal mitigation skill that every other tank currently has (thrill, dark mind, camouflage) that Paladin had lost in ShB. It would also be "weaker" than their equivalents still, accounting for the fact that Paladin does have two raid-wide protection abilities. But this would put the skill back into use rotation, not bloat our skill-set anymore than it already is and thematically fit the job.
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I understand how broken Cover was in SB, so I won't suggest just reverting the skill to that. Rather than that, I would really like to see it be converted into also providing a Bulwark like ability. How I see it would be re-designed is:
1) Still requires a party member to use, still provides the cover effect.
2) Add ability +60% to block rate through duration of cover. This would work on both direct incoming damage and damage incoming through the cover effect.
3) Drop the gauge requirement, put it on a 120 sec cooldown.
This would provide the "filler" personal mitigation skill that every other tank currently has (thrill, dark mind, camouflage) that Paladin had lost in ShB. It would also be "weaker" than their equivalents still, accounting for the fact that Paladin does have two raid-wide protection abilities. But this would put the skill back into use rotation, not bloat our skill-set anymore than it already is and thematically fit the job.
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