Final Fantasy 14 Paladin Guide (Patch 6.3) by Xeno 

Hey guys! This is a reupload. The original needed to be taken down cuz of a small error on one of the rotation sheets. Everything should be good now! Apologies for the mistake.

Nice! Also the newly posted priority Rotation is amazing tbh, no more hardcast HS no more Attonement drops.

Considering stun is mostly used to interrupt and not for long duration stunning, I think it would be interesting to combine Intervene and Shield Bash. 2 charges, 150 potency, 3-4 second stun with a gap closing shield bash animation.

I feel like Attonement would be more exciting if it was a 1-button combo like the Confiteor combo. I wished they replaced Goring Blade with a more exciting animation like GNB's Double Down or just replaced the ability with something else. Right now, Attonement and Goring Blade feel like they should be replaced because they feel like they don't belong. I could also argue the same thing with holy spirit.

They turned Goring Blade into Boring Blade

Important mentions: 1) never use Holy Spirit under Requiescat despite it having more potency that way - edit: when not under Divine Might buff. 2) FoF-> Req->Goring->Scorn->Expiacion sequence is perfectly self-aligned and is up whenever FoF is up as long as you don't miss the next Scorn+Expiacion doubleweave.

Missed opportunity not calling this video "SHIELD MODE". 😂 On a serious note thanks for sharing your rotation and thoughts on the job. I always appreciate how your rotations try to account for randomness and go for reliability and consistency instead of chasing the absolute mathematical best as sometimes that can lead to some really cursed rotation stuff.

the goring blade not off gcd kinda made fof window harder to fit

You explain thing well. Only thing I would improve on is when you were showing the rotation explain what you were doing while doing it. If you wanna go above and beyond then have like visuals. Especially for me have the trifecta while learning helps me allot. Trifecta being you voicing what your doing, Visual Ques like having the ability pop up on the side of the screen while also having your character doing said actions. It's allot of work I understand and take what I am saying with a grain of salt XD But other than some things that would help people like me learn your video was very well done. I've subbed and like this video and shared it to my fc. Hope it helps get your feed out there. (Id keep shield lob on just for those low end dungeon pulls. Maby setup another set of Hotbars for low end?

Kinda weird seeing Bulwark back, but I guess it kinda makes sense seeing how Drk and Gnb have an extra mit and War has Thrill as flavor CDs

Buhh

Here is my manifesto that no one asked for. I think this rework is awful and completely killed the job for me. You are now forced into a set opener and rotation like every other tank while the phys/magic divide was completely obliterated so you are pretty much locked into the same exact rotation for every fight without being able to choose which one to start with. People have called it a baby GNB but it feels like NIN without mudra more than anything. The best thing they could have done to make old PLD work is just make the ridiculous boss hitboxes smaller and every balance problem in the game would magically fix itself. Melee dps will have priority, not warranting the rest of the group to hold buffs, PLD's range phase would make up the dps difference between it and other tanks, 2min meta would eventually fall out of favour again and jobs like RDM/MCH wouldnt be in the dumpster as they have been for more than a year now. Now we are left with this husk of a job that feels like every other tank but with pretty lights and this "oh but its so flexible now!!" meme that is meaningless when melee downtine doesnt even exist since every boss just goes untargetable for everyone instead.

Finally. The paladin video I’ve been waiting for

Xenos: Run paladin as slow as possible. Me: 2.38?

Also I recall back when Bulwark previously existed, PLD couldn't block magic, making that 3 min cd look even more comical "But Bulwark was great on big dungeon pulls" Sure it was. Know what wasnt, though? FLASH.

I'd love if they added Clemency to the spells affected by Divine Migth so we could throw a cheeky instant heal when needed outside of Requiescat but overall the rework is great

I really expected them to remove Cover

I'm PLD main, and I was scared, how the changes will affect me. But now that I've gotten the hang of it, I actually like the change better, although I did enjoy the previous PLD. I don't have to worry about Skill Speed anymore, it's easier to get burst into party buffs and I can still use my defensive cooldowns mostly like before. There are couple of small things I think should be addressed. First of all, Divine Veil's healing. Overall Divine Veil is better now, since it doesn't need proc anymore, but most often I find that its healing goes to waste, since the healing comes as soon as you use it. I think the heal should come after the shield effect runs out. Divine Veil is still used mostly to provide party mitigation for raidwides, and this is done in advance to the raidwide, not during or after it. And most of the time healers have managed to heal up the party before the next raidwide. In situations, where there is two or more raidwides coming in a row, Divine Veil like this works fine, but it is still quite rare. Second is Cover. It can be a good ability in certain situations, but those situations are far and wide between, in my experience. Most of the time I don't use Cover at all. Maybe it would be better, if it worked like Cover at some point did in Star Wars: The Old Republic. There, Cover worked like this: put it into a single friendly target, and a portion of the damage that target received was instead directed to the tank. The effect was permanent until it was deactivated. Cover in FFXIV could work in a similar manner, maybe something like: "For the next 60 seconds, 10% of the damage covered target receives is instead directed to you". This, I think, would make Cover more flexible in OT situations at least. One problem I find in Cover is the fact that it directs all the damage covered target receives to the PLD. And I agree Cover doesn't have to be limited to the Oath Gauge. Intervention can handle that. My thoughts on Shield Bash. In early game it's a good ability, but in late game it becomes useless, since all bosses become immune to stuns. And it also doesn't apply stun as well as Low Blow does. One thing that also limits Shield Bash's usefulness is WHM Holy. I do the opener a little differently from Xeno. Like this: Holy Spirit, basic combo, FoF+Requiescat, Confiteor, CoS+Expiacion, Goring Blade, Valor Combo, Holy Spirit, 3 Atonements and 2 Intervenes during FoF window. But using Royal Authority with FoF is fine, since it has the same potency as Atonement, and I can fit 2 Atonements for each FoF. "I don't know why people think this is like Gunbreaker." That's funny, because these changes made PLD a lot like GNB. Burst goes much the same with PLD now as does GNB's. GNB burst is to get Bloodfest, Double Down, Gnashing fang combo, Blasting Zone, Bow Shock+Sonic Break and 1-2 Burst Strikes with Hypervelocity into No Mercy-window. PLD burst is very similar now. The only apparent difference is Sonic Break DoT, as PLD has no equivalent for that. DPS wise PLD didn't get overall increase on its own, it's around the same it was before. But now that it has a clear burst that is relatively easy to get inside party buffs, it did receive a boost imo.

Is it so difficult to just increase the overall sustained damage instead of focusing on burst phase? Will it become too OP? I honestly like the previous PLD, sure it's aDPS sucks but it's good feeling nonetheless. At first I thought they were doing a complete overhaul, like SMN, but it's quite halfheartedly that it feels meh. I wish they reworked cover, some of my ideas that might be good: - Remove the tether - Remove costs - If want to tether, make it toggleable, so that we can cancel whenever we want and doesn't have to move far away (honestly this is so stupid, why can't we cancel it on the spot?) - Continuing from above, make it a dash towards teammates (if need to tether), like bruh I need to walk in and walk out to save a person. Make it like PvP, why so difficult?? you already have the skill inside the game brooooo - Better, when covering, you gain damage reduction, because duh? you are holding a shield?? covering?? Like a true PLD chad - Best is when you can use Invul with it lol, like PvP!! (again) Honestly PvP PLD feels more like a true PLD than PvE To add, Req should be changed to something like a Smite Evil from a DnD game, the effect could be increasing DH% or Crit% against that enemy (alone, or better for all PT members). Increasing damage taken would be too OP I think. I think the dev needs to play more DnD and know what an OG, Classic PLD truly do. I don't expect PLD to top the aDPS chart of all tanks, but at least we can excel in supporting members, like giving buffs. If we can't excel in aDPS, we can excel in rDPS instead. Then people would play PLD more. - Also, to make it more PLD, add AoE healing abilities. I know we are tank, but we are PLD, heal away. Useful when your H1 is dead and another raidwide is incoming. At least with this we can salvage a fight.

Personally, i feel all it's missing is an extra cooldown that lets you burn all your current Atonement stacks for an extra burst of damage. That would make it so you're no longer dropping Atonements and it would bring the burst up an extra notch.

I understand Pal had to change in some aspects but man I really don't like the new changes and my muscle memory agrees with me.

I know in raids and normal dungeon shield bash is pretty useless. But in PotD or HoH shield bash can drastically reduce the difficulty of many high level mobs by chain stunning them. So no I would want them gone at all.

Buhh (reload)

I'm no expert on Paladin by any means. But so far I like the changes. Still clunky, and I feel like more work needs to be done on it but it is an improvement. Edit - I wish they would do something more with Shield Bash. It's great thematically but maybe put it in a skill chain. After your 1, 2 hits (can't remember their names) you can use shield bash to deal damage but also apply a defensive buff of some kind. Just an idea.

Oh hey neat, I was accidentally doing this right...glad even though I'm rusty I still got it

Sheltron having DR instead of blocking is good for Holy Shield Bash into Holy Bladedance, since you can't block while CCed. Veil being instant _and_ shielding the PLD is a big pro because you can now reliably proc it when not in spell phase. The only con is that you can't cast it early to start the cooldown then proc it later. I miss not having DoTs on Goring and Blade of Valor, but basically what they did was add the combined potency of the entire DoT to the base potency so it does the full damage all at once instead of over 21 seconds. This is better because you're not going to lose potency from bad server ticks when refreshing the DoT. Overall, it certainly feels like I'm playing Endwalker now and not Shadowbringers 2.0.

thankyou, I am dum dum warrior and paladin keeps changing every time I look at it I swear, lmao.

Idk how they reworked a job and made its rdps worse, lamo. I know adps is what matter, whatever. As pld main i hate the new rotation bc its fucking boring and sucks, but i love it in term of mits, and i dont mind the new rotation for the new mits.

I don't think they've ever done big, sweeping changes mid-expansion, they save that for later.

I would like an ability that refills the Oath gauge in the same vein as Infuriate, but defensively. Or something similar to Blood Weapon. Just more ways to immediately generate Oath for more situational usage. I like your suggestion on Clemency being a targeted Equilibrium, and Atonement not breaking combos. I have the same opinion on Shield Bash, get it away already... Cover, I think, could be better as a mini Hallowed Ground to give to someone, bit overpowered as far as suggestions goes. Instead of the full duration of Hallowed, you can give them a 2-3 seconds Hallowed Ground?

Honestly I prefer warrior to all the other tanks right now. I like the simpler DPS rotation so you can focus on doing actual tank stuff. Not that you really need to with the way the game is right now, but at least you have that as an option.

Cover has some nice utility in EX5, you can single tank the fight with a PLD who covers the other person during the tb. But yeah, it's mostly useless on a class that has the most actions in the game

New Goring Blade being a GCD pisses me off and makes PLD to feel like complete garbage to me. It should've been a Blasting Zone equivalent from GNB but oh well...

Now that we got Bulwark’s block back, I wonder if they’ll give DRK Dark Dance’s parry back🤔 Jk

i wish you could stack holy spirit and itll go onto a gauge instead of it being a temporary buff

the laziest re-work in FF14

This isn’t really related to how the job plays I guess but Holy Spirit feels like such a flaccid ability as far as animations, sound effects, and visuals go. From level 70-79 you don’t have Confiteor so you find yourself spamming this twinkly little snowflake ability and it just feels so lame.

Why do I feel like I do more to support my group with warrior than a paladin? Honestly it feels like they just shat this out as effortlessly as possible. I love the idea of Paladin but I think I'll stick with warrior.

Also, since FoF now buffs spells too, i'm starting to see four to five 45+k hits in a row. Was not possible before..

Really hope they do something to goring blade. Thats the only thing that is really meh in this rework to me. I like the single holy spirit in each combo that keeps the pld mobility up and is freely usuable. I like it

Thanks for dumbing it down for me, but I think I'm gonna stick to flexing between DRK and WAR myself, been having fun on WAR for a bit and that new Shake buff is neat

As someone who quit in shadowbringers. They fucked paladin up if I ever return It be warrior or nothing cause they fucked gun up too

I wouldn't worry too hard about trying to follow strict filler rotations. You can treat the job as a basic priority system, using all atonements every time, and so long as you get your gore/conf combo/at least 1 buffed HS the damage difference is negligible compared to the strict loop with dropped atonements. The priority is: 1) Buffed HS 2) Atonement 3) RA Combo If you do that and use your oGCD on cooldown you should be fine. Sure you might end up with a fast or riot in your burst sometimes, but the damage gained by not dropping atonements evens that out. You can swap around the order of your HS and atonement GCD as needed for uptime/buffs so long as you use both before finishing your next RA combo. I think this will be easier to remember and execute for most players as opposed to the stricter 60s/120s loop rotations. The order of your GCD in burst also doesn't matter, so long as you hit everything within FoF, you are free to shift them around as needed. Example being if a fight makes you drop out of melee range mid burst, you can delay your conf combo till the back half your burst rather than doing it first. Just be careful with this since if you push back gore/req it will effect when they come up in all future bursts, so I would try to use those as close to the start of your burst as possible.

They basically rearranged the burst by combining your fight or flight "dump everything" and magic combo period and then mixed atonement up with post-combo casts. It's neat on paper but they effectively traded "a lot of work every minute for so little payoff" to "less yet constant work for little payoff", and threw a Balwark on top for no real reason. I'm just gonna replace Cover just so I can fit Clemency on my damn controller bars.

hello paladin dummy here, is this opener still viable? cause my brain is ingrained on this lmao

Changes seem like what mnk got in ShB. Like they are working towards whatever rework they may do. I didn't really care for goring before mainly because it felt odd compared to the other tanks, kind of like the war damage buff being tied to a combo. Like it's just there to be a button while drk and gnb just ape through with 1 primary combo. RA also looks better than goring animationwise

Cover needs to be deleted. Goring Blade should either be deleted or turned into something more exciting. Atonement needs to be merged into another skill or redone as well. I don't want Paladin to be bare bones but it also has a shockingly high number of buttons that somehow accomplish very little. OH, and make the gap closer a level 60 skill while you're at it.

To many abilities for my opinion

Req exclusively used for your confi combo ignoring completely it's mechanic of free amped spirits has always been poor and clunky design to me. Boring blade and confi combo losing the DOT has left the job in a state of no management/upkeep. And I may just be in the minority on this opinion but pure damage longer cooldown abilities do not belong on tanks if not tied to some kind of interesting synergy like inner release and primal rend or even the free holy spirit finisher we get now. This 2min burst rotation meta has slowly decayed the game's combat into stagnant repetitive by the numbers rotations. With completely irrelevant buttons outside of the two minute timer. Everybody is a DPS just some blue or green that can and can't take a hit.

I'm pld main and i don't like the rework. i'm not gonna drop the job, since it's my starter job, and i really like it. 1) Sheltron nerf (yes i miss block even tho i think the block itself should be reworked) 2) removal of dot's is a plus, but Goring Blade is too weak. ty for keeping it in the game, we didn't lose it like Kaiten but still why it is just 700 potency. make it and 800, but cost a gauge maybe, i duuno, it feels strange. 3) Single holy spirits after RA feels completely out of place. The major thing of REQ was 8 GCD of PURE MOVEMENT AND DAMAGE AT RANGE. When others will cast lighting shot, or more the boss awkwardly, i can move freely (with a loss of Autos ofc) and still contributing to team dmg in a good amount. What would've been better is you got a choise on what you can spend DIvine Might, be it HS or Clemency. 4)F Finally we got Divine Veil to how it should be. It shields you, and JUST WORKS. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. But Cover still useless, since it's on Gauge, And if target got DOT on it, before you use cover, it will die since cover don't work on dots. It shields you from almost all the dmg (and knockback btw) that comes after the cover is active, but cannot mitigate dot that was appiled before, and it won't help against anything that is already on you. Passage of Arms should be renamed to "Loosing uptime if you channel it" or, what i would ask for, make it like a SCH\WHM assylum (sorry whatever this dome called) and forget it. Yes, we gonna lose awesome animation, and stuff, but atleast it will be more viable, be usefull all 18 seconds of it, and, pld can still be in the fight, even when it is active. Clemency is still an emergency "Cringy healer in dungeon/PF/Prog tool" and nothing more. Sad. just make it a OGCD, since mana management on pld is a joke, and it would help this ability significantly. Well, even tho i'm kinda summoner-ish now, i'm still happy about some things. Ah, i almost forgot. Make Shield bash part of the rotation pls, or just remove it. Thank you.

pld seems ok. but where is my radius increase for Succor? it should be 20 yalms for costing 1000 MP

I’ve always felt a good additional effect to clemency would be for it to give a bit of your path gauge every time you use it to heal. Maybe like 10 oath. It’d incentivize you to use it a bit more often, since you’d also get to use more oath moves as well..

The only time i ever used shield bash was when i speedrun paladin, was undergeared for most

It's not a matter of whether it's better or worse. I've had to change my rotation this patch, making it a bad patch. I just want to sit around eating crayons while wearing best in slot and this isn't helping.

i wish they would just make cover like PVP where its a movement ability you can target a Party member and dash towards them and we take their damage. also thanks for the video im to dumb to think out rotations lol

Yeah cover is only there because it's a traditional Final Fantasy ability. It doesn't really work in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Yeah but pld is just like gnb now PepeLaugh

6:28 Holy spriit was fixed that it would not break combos in 6.08, or 6.1. so yeah, this fix was for the old pld.

It's way more flexible, and way easier to understand. The issue is that I really enjoyed just how precise everything was. your 1-2-Dot led perfectly into a 1-2-3-4-4-4, so that you can go right back to 1-2-Dot right when it ended. same with Req phase. You could go from the melee DoT into a magic phase, then right into your main combo again without losing a second of uptime, as long as you could maintain constant uptime though. It was really fun to get everything working right, but now it just feels basic and uninteresting. Paladin always felt like it should be the ordered tank. You're supposed to be a bulwark of constitution and tradition as the noble tank, and the gameplay felt like it. What I'd do to fix it is to let you stack up three stacks of Divine Might. That way you can save them up throughout your melee phase to spend in your magic phase while still having some range opportunity where you can use one in the melee phase. Give us back our damn DoT! if they must do something with it outside of just making it a different combo action, I'd say there should be no combo or recast. Instead have it take up all three of your stacks of Sword Oath. It can last 25 seconds to get the feeling of the dual-combo rotation like before. you'd go 1-2-3-DoT-1-2-3-4-4-4-1-2-3-DoT. Then your magic phase would be extended by how many '3's you pressed in your melee phase.

PLD 6.3 guide but... Where's the DRK guide? HMMMMM? All jokes, great video!

I keep saying that clemency should be targetted equilibrium but ehh, at this point, i've given up.

wasnt shield bash used for e8s xdd

so i have 2.48 on paladin right now and the FoF still drifts almost an entire GCD...like every rotation it shows up a second later in the rotation. no idea wtf im doing wrong here lol

new Xeno video (rework)

Hey, I'm a dummy! I also happen to "main" PLD! So let's watch that video!

Oh geez I didn't even know about half of these changes LOL the Wonder I keep dying

I hate this rework bro

When he gonna ract? pepeW

4:26 I'm at 2.5 GCD and I do more dps by only using 2 Atonements outside of FoF ignore last stack and use the buffed Holy Spirit (b/c it hits harder than Atonement), and yeah this lines up the rotation with FoF better too.

roll goring into atonements potency and call it a day...get rid of it

The closed caption on this video is just wild

Shield bash should be an ogcd cone stun on a 30 sec cooldown. At least then it would be worth using in dungeons. I’m shocked cover didn’t get changed. New goring blade is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. Remember when they removed ninja’s shadow fang because it was just a button you hit once every minute and forgot about? Why’d they give paladin the same button? I hope the devs really try with job design in 7.0. Were down to maybe 3 jobs that are actually interesting/fun now and it’s really disappointing.

Overall, I like the new pld changes. I do wish we would've gotten some stuff address. Maybe in 7.0 Shield Bash - make this more decent. Is that even possible outside of making it so it doesn't break combos. Maybe oGCD? Even then, stunning enemies have diminishing returns, and bosses outside of ARR are mostly immune. Plus, Holy does Stun better Cover - I really don't know why we have this skill at this point. It's so niche. You're better off using your gauge on something else. Intervene - Would've loved to see us get this a little bit sooner than level 74.

WALL OF TEXT ALERT Some few things that I find PLD to be worse at now; survivability is worse overall, you could get 400 cure potency times 8 through Req, which now is only 400 times 4, and Divine Might just seems... like a weak or slow version of the other tanks' 1-2-3 combo heals without adjusting the healing (no SkS; WAR at 250 cure every 3rd combo, DRK at 300 cure every 3rd combo, GNB at 200 + 200 potency shield every 2nd combo), and PLD gets 400 cure whether it's AoE or single target at at inconsistent rate, every 4th through 1-2-3, or every 3rd GCD through AoE which is unique to them at least... In regards to Goring Blade... its overall Potency per minute has been reduced, 250 potency + 65 per server tick for total of 21 seconds, totaling a 705 potency for its entire duration... but it doesn't stop there, DoTs can also critically direct hit... meaning not only is Goring Blade longer in cooldown, but has lower overall damage potential because of loss of DoT... a lot of math is involved, but Going Blade now is just a bad Sonic Break at 200 less potency (300 + 60 * 10 damage over time totaling 900) or Blasting Zone with extra 30 second cooldown... In addition... Sheltron overall feels a bit weaker too now, with the removal of block from it, it now reduces damage taken by 15%, whereas the block was 20% damage reduction, only to reduce the damage taken. The mitigation design for this new PLD is just... bizarre, why choose PLD, when you can take WAR's Shake it Off which now also Heals over time? Why take Passage of Arms, when most DoTs are magic and can be negated by Dark Missionary or Heart of Light, or even Shake it Off now? Paladin now is overall just questionable to me.

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yeah the stun is only good for like HoH or PotD

The devs told us we have 10k mp so we should use all of it lmfao

promo sm 😝

Am I the only one that likes what they did with goring blade?

Honestly this was a lazy "Rework". I've been loyal to PLD since I started FFXIV in 2017. 5.0 PLD was the BEST! You had a 4-Atonement rotation and the 2nd highest DPS behind GNB. None of the other tanks have to deliberately drop resources to keep the loop going. They either didn't test this or they didn't care enough to make it better. 🤷🏾

Cover can be a raid buff for a lower damage for party rather see that I have used it before but it's not used much

so they just made pld boring?

Good shit brother!

Why u dont use Requicast + flight or fight to power even more holyspirit? it doesnt work like that?

It’s slick now

only stun in the entire game that has no cd and you can spam it endlessly. If you think shield bash is bad, YOU are bad at the game. It's absolutely priceless and almost a requirement in some content, like potd. It's also MASSIVE mitigation in dungeons if your healer or dps are struggling. Rotating shield bash around a group of 5+ mobs can literally save a pull from wiping. Also if you use it correctly, cover is one of the best skills in the game. If they removed the gauge requirement it would be 10/10 useful. If you're not using cover on the regular, you're playing pld wrong.

I don't understand videos like this discussing things like "openers" and "rotations." What is there to optimize? I've been playing for over 2 years, and I never considered these things until I recently leveled GNB and BLM. To me, the fun comes from the combos and weaving of abilities because you press the buttons in fun patterns. At least on controller. I don't know HOW you could have fun playing with a keyboard, because the satisfying combos are gone. Maybe I'm missing something. Still love this game to death.

I think to make Goring blade more worth it they should bumped the initial hit to the 700 potency like they did but kept a dot at 300 potency on it also.

OMG Plz do not do this as PLD... Do not open with Holy Spirit... 1 2 3 Requiescat, Fight or Flight, Goring Blade+Circle of Scorn, Holy Spirit Proc+Expiacion, Confiteor+Gap Closer, Faith Truth Valor, Attonement x3

There are a lot of dungeons where you can stun enemies, it's pretty standard for white mages to use holy during mob pulls (which stuns the mobs). Some bosses in lower level content are even stunnable. That's one reason why having a skill (shield bash) that can stun is useful; there's no benefit to removing it from the game. Cover can save someone from death (and the associated damage penalty), as it has in plenty of my raids; I think it's better to leave it in than to remove it, but I can see an argument for removing to simplify the game. Never seen his content before, although this video kinda feels like he's intentionally being abrasive, maybe that's just his style.

I was wondering if you do raid carry mr Xenosys vex sir

Xeno's hairline is noticeable in this video. :o

We don't care dude. Can you just ract already...

Am I the only one that noticed you can still cast holy spirit three times after Req before you go into confetti combo?? Or am I high and not being optimal?

Is that a...a shield? Pffft!

As a main paladin your rotation you came with is very similar as mine. The difference in the opener is after requierscat i do. Requierscat > Reprisal > Holy Spirit > goring blade > circle scorn > expiacion >blades and between the intervention. The loop is the same aton. X3 > royal authority combo > 2 aton. Circle scorn > expiacion > expiacion > holy spirit > royal authority combo and then I need to do or 2 aton or 1 aton and 1 hs if I know I will need to disengage the boss so I can do from far without casting still gonna drop 2 aton in that case. Due to I will re enter to my burst (opener). Good video for dummies. And even if you don't play pld you have a great understanding of it!

this pld version is much better but have mp problem with running dungeon in terms of spamming circle to dmg mobs

What about aoe rotation?

I was so hyped for Paladin. It was my first tank class before I dropped it for DRK. I tried it for the first 2 days and the class is still boring to play. I dropped it instantly for WAR To clear dungeons and DRK for raids. PLD is just the flashy pretty class. Paladin needs more dmg or fix Gorin blade, holy spirit and clemency. It's in a Weird spot for me.

fuhh nice