fracture for a paladin?

I use it quite often depending on the fight even though the DPS increase is small it still our second strongest TP move.

You can open Halone combo or close Halone with it but never interrupt your combo. Never use it when TP is an issue.

Great for T10 right before a charge as long as Halone is not up. Great if you are only tagging a mob once or about to leave the mob and halone is not up.

I use it in conjunction with CoS... and in a not so distant future, the DoT after Riot Blade.

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Originally Posted by rawker

I use it in conjunction with CoS... and in a not so distant future, the DoT after Riot Blade.

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The new offensive skills will make fracture worthless. Its only used now because of how limited PLD is.

wasn't really worth it in the first place...mind you pld has some pretty poor cross-class skills outside stoneskin, mercy stroke and foresight.

tp cost isn't really worth it. especially when you account for upkeep during prolonged engagements.

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Originally Posted by saber_alter

wasn't really worth it in the first place...mind you pld has some pretty poor cross-class skills outside stoneskin, mercy stroke and foresight.

tp cost isn't really worth it. especially when you account for upkeep during prolonged engagements.

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2nd strongest GCD skill for PLD....

Fracture sucks as PLD. Maybe use it when off-tanking a primal or boss or something but thats it. Get Stoneskin or Cure or something. Yea Cure sucks as a tank but ill use it more than a fracture.

Despite the unappealing tp cost of it, it's one of those ws that does high pot and not requiring any combo build up. Sure it's limited but it's there so I'll find ways I can fit it in.

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Originally Posted by rawker

Despite the unappealing tp cost of it, it's one of those ws that does high pot and not requiring any combo build up. Sure it's limited but it's there so I'll find ways I can fit it in.

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Exactly.

Its 220 potency. The only stronger attack is Halone which requires 3 GCDs. The only reason not to use Fracture is TP.

Stoneskin I say is our best additional, but its use is extremely limited.
Mercy Stroke is meh but a free oGCD.
Foresight again is Meh.
Bloodbath is Meh.
Fracture is our second strongest GCD attack.

And in HW, one can go Gory Blade combo into CoS into Fracture for a whooping 3 DoTs. Considering skillspeed will also affect dots and CHR will also increase crit damage, it is feasible to have a SkS + crit OT PLD. If Royal Authority will be PLD's maim, then it makes it even better.

As Rawker said, I use it at the same as CoS ... And I abuse Shield Swipe to maintain TP as long as possible.

It's net DPS gain, but a net TP loss. I personnaly stop using it if I get below 250 TP.

I also agree with people that say our choice of cross-class skills, as PLD, is quite limited.

Stoneskin is the only one anyone should have, and considering we'll get more chances to maintain MP with Shelltron and Goring Blade combo, its usefulness will go up.

Cure is decent until level 49, not so great at 50, but still ends up giving you back more than Bloodbath, also, depending on Divine Veil's cooldown, it could be great for soloing in order to more often activate the barrier effect.

Protect is good for soloing, and will get Proshell after Heavensward.

Foresight doesn't make much of a difference on big boss fights, but it's another cooldown to add to your rotation while doing dungeons and it's better than nothing when all the other ones are down. I'd say it's the second more useful one.

Skull Sunder ? Not worth mentionning.

Raise ? Takes half of our MP and can't use it outside of battle. Chances are you'll almost never use it.

That leaves Mercy Stroke and Fracture. The first is OGCD but only useable under 20%, the other is used well with Circle of Scorn. Therefore I prefer Fracture.

And so, for reasons above, I use Foresight, Cure, Protect, Fracture, Stoneskin.