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It also means that you'll effectively rely on Combat Orders to get your maximum damage. If you get dispelled, your HP, defense, and above all else, mastery will drop on the spot. You'll have to cast Combat Orders first before casting all other abilities just to get your stats back.

Paladins have 8 buffs to keep up anyway.
- Combat Orders
- Booster
- Lightning Charge
- Stance
- Power Guard
- Maple Warrior
- Iron Body
- Second charge (Holy, Fire, or Ice)
Since 4th job skills will always improve when you cast CO, there's no reason not to cast it first. The only ones of these you can skip without affecting damage output are Stance, PG, and Iron Body anyway, so you'll want to cast at least 5 before attacking.

I did suggest in my build to leave the points out of SB (at 15) and PS (at 18) so you can get HP Boost and Iron Body maxed on their own. They're both much more useful after 1st job is finished. You can take a similar approach to 2nd job, skipping Improved Fundamentals in favour of maxing Mastery, FA, etc.

Now, I know you plan on 2-handed weapons, so not choosing Guardian is fine. If you don't know, Guardian not only blocks 40% of the time stunning the attacker for 6 seconds, but it also resists status debuffs (such as seal) 30% of the time as well as 30% resistance to all "attribute" attacks (I'm assuming magic, but it could just be a further boost to Achilles). I'm not going to say that the two latter effects work without a shield, but the skill itself does not mention it requires a shield for anything except the blocking. Don't take my word on it. If that is the case though (again, get confirmation), you may want to reconsider. Otherwise, I don't see too much of an issue for the 4th job build itself.

I hope a little constructive criticism helps.

As far as I can tell the other 30% is like Elemental Resistance, it's either that or all magic attacks (harder to test, my Paladin has a lot of mdef). And no Guardian doesn't work without a shield, nor does Shield Mastery (obv.) Divine Shield does work with 2h weapons.