Im fine the way we are but also wouldnt mind being upgraded a little to be more in-line with Guardians, so far Paladins can tank any encounter as well as a Guardian if they know what they are doing and everyone with you is also capable.
But there are problems, especially with our taunts, they seem too weak from mid 20's onwards, there are many times where you just cant put aggro back, use every taunt every ability on mob, heal person being attacked, rescue on mob, nothing happens
Not sure if this is a bug but I know Guardians have been able to hold aggro far better on groups of mobs. Issue that usually happens with me is I hold aggro fine till end and the last mob of a group always seems to go aggro a caster even with me chaining the group taunts throughout and using HOs constantly, not sure if this is a bug but its very annoying especially when that last mob of a group is a named.
I wouldnt mind being a heavier tank and losing a bit of avoidance to go more down the road of Mitigation atm we seem to have been mitigation nerfed, Iw as 56% mitigation before LU7 now 46% with same gear and stats.
So Id like to go somewhere inbetween, not all the way to practically a Guardian but our Taunts need to be addressed, our dps isnt mega but lets not make it tiny like poor Templars, we often arent the main choice for raids, you wont be able to make a completly fair system where everyone can tank unless you only have the 4 baseic archtypes
So we need to keep some dps as its often our role as a support class being able to do lots of things.
One main thing to really help us perform and bring more balance in would be to allow a Range slot item for Knights.
All Scouts can have a Range item, Fighters can except for Knights, why cant we? I dont see why not, the imbalance with stats here is very annoying and being able to have a bow would be great, for different styles of pulling, opening up a lot more worthwhile quests, and most of all to address the stats imbalance.
Also think Mages and Priests should be allowed a symbol type range slot item but thats an issue for another thread
So my vote would be to stick us somewhere inbetween going all the way with this closer to Guardian proposal, and staying pretty much as we are