LEVEL	ABILITY			CHANGES
1	Fast Blade
2	Rampart
4	Savage Blade
6	Fight or Flight
8	Flash				Inflicts blind by default, without requiring a trait for it.
10	Shield Swipe		Does not require blocking to use, blocking instead resets cooldown. 30 second cooldown. Restores MP on use.
12	Shield Bash			Off-gcd, has a 3 second cooldown, but inflicts no damage. Stuns for 3 seconds by default (2 pvp).
15C	Shield Lob
18	Goring Blade		Combos from Fast Blade, combo potency of 180. Combo inflicts a 15 potency DoT for 24s (total potency 300, 580
						if traited)
22	Convalescence
26	Rage of Halone		Debuff reduces ALL damage dealt by 10%, not just physical damage. (Same as Storm's Path, does not stack)
30C	Cover				Toggled ability, drains MP while active and as damage is redirected. Works up to 20y, but only redirects half
						the damage dealt to targets beyond 10y. Redirected damage is affected by the Paladin's defense instead of
						the target's defense.
30J	Knight's Oath		Toggles between Sword Oath and Shield Oath. Costs MP, but is off-gcd.
N/A	Sword Oath			Increases attack speed and decreases recast times by 10% (instead of increasing auto-attack potency).
N/A	Shield Oath			Allows the Paladin to block and parry magic damage in addition to previous effects. Makes Cover also redirect
						magic damage.
34	Sentinel
35J	Spirits Within
38	Riot Blade			Combos from Goring Blade, combo potency of 250. Combo bestows a buff to self that regens HP and refreshes
						MP over time for 24s.
40J	Clemency			Has an instant cast time and costs less MP than usual. (Around 30% of max MP.)
42	Tempered Will	 	Also restores 300 TP on use in addition to previous effects.
45J	Circle of Scorn
46	Bulwark				Also nullifies incoming critical hits like Awareness currently does, in addition to previous effects.
50	Royal Authority
50J	Hallowed Ground
52J	Sheltron			Cooldown is increased to 40 seconds (to make up for being able to block magic damage and use shield swipe
						more often.)
54J	Rallying Cry		New ability: Extends your currently active Riot Blade buff to all nearby party members (restoring their HP
						and MP over time). Duration is equal to the remaining duration of the buff. 120 second cooldown.
56J	Divine Veil			The damage shield applies instantly, also applies to the Paladin, and can be healed through without
						dispelling it.
58J	Arise				New ability: Resurrects a single fallen party member. Instant cast time, off-gcd. 120 second cooldown.
60J	Sacred Cross		New ability: Applies a 10s buff to yourself, at the end of the buff, inflicts between 100 to 300 potency
						AoE	damage centered on you, and applies a 10s damage down debuff on all targets affected. The more damage
						you	take during the buff, the more damage you inflict, and the buff will explode instantly upon reaching
						300 potency. Counts damage before any reductions, so using defensive cooldowns does not affect total damage.
						90 second cooldown.

(Abilities marked with C are from the level 15/30 class quests. Abilities marked with J are from the job quests.)

LEVEL	TRAIT						EFFECT
8		Enhanced Vitality			+2 Vitality
14		Enhanced Rampart			Increases damage reduction to 20%.
16		Enhanced Vitality II		+4 Vitality
20		Enhanced Flash				Flash also inflicts AoE damage with potency of 80.
24		Enhanced Vitality III		+6 Vitality
28		Enhanced Fight or Flight	Increases Fight or Flight duration to 30 seconds.
32		Enhanced Convalescence		Increases HP recovery to 30%.
36		Enhanced Shield Bash		Increases stun duration to 6 seconds (3 pvp).
40		Enhanced Shield Swipe		Reduces Shield Swipe cooldown to 20 seconds.
44		Enhanced Sentinel			Increases damage reduction to 40%.
48		Enhanced Goring Blade		Increases Goring Blade DoT potency to 50.

These changes aim to make the job both more fun to play and make it more useful by providing stuff that the other tanks can't already. It's not strictly about increasing its dps (although it gains a few touches to help a little bit in that regard, particularly AoE damage) but more to provide proper support abilities that are actually useful for people who might need some extra help to survive more difficult fights. It's also been made a little bit more fun to level with off-gcd abilities and a second proper combo coming much earlier, and the new abilities it gets at 60 lets it play nice with other casters by helping restore MP or save raids from potential wipes with a well-timed resurrection or Divine Veil.

>What about Provoke?
Either part of the new common cross-class skill pool that people think are coming in Stormblood or some other job gets it and it's now a cross-class skill for GLA/PLD. It's not like marauders have ever given any real useful abilities in return for all the shit gladiators give to them anyway. Ideally cross-class skills (assuming the entire system doesn't get replaced) should be balanced out so all three jobs get roughly the same amount of useful abilities to choose between from each other but this is about fixing PLD specifically so that's beyond the scope of this rework.

>What about Awareness?
Now an inherent part of Bulwark, which only PLDs can use. Since only PLDs have critical hit nullification now, this can make people consider picking it over other jobs in fights that have guaranteed crits. (But you can still pick other tanks for more dps if you want, making it a risk-reward play as it should be.)