Don't nerf cast time on Holy Spirit, nerf the potency

When you know your post is bad and you have to post it in General instead of the Tank forums, hoping that more people will get their eye on it... and statistically have more chance at someone agreeing.

The decision has already been made, all we can do now is brace for impact. As they hate to make changes in the middle of a raid tier, I'm not expecting any more changes till 4.2. Four dot two... forty two... oh god <grabs towel>.

Button bloat? lmao PLDs have had hardly any buttons to press for 4 years and you want to dumb that down, how easy do you want this game to be?

123 123 123 Thats about it other then throwing spirits and circle all we do is press 3 buttons, unless we wanna do our dot and dps comb

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Originally Posted by Galactimus

Auto attacks are an afterthought.

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Sword oath is around 15% increase in damage delt and you only get the added damage from auto-attacks hitting, they also attack at nearly twice the rate than the other tanks to equal 1 of their auto-attacks so it's actually more important than you'd think.

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Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

Sword oath is around 15% increase in damage delt and you only get the added damage from auto-attacks hitting, they also attack at nearly twice the rate than the other tanks to equal 1 of their auto-attacks so it's actually more important than you'd think.

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It's the flow and mechanics of a class that are far more important. Being able to use OGCD's in between casts, being able to finish casting before having to dodge, putting Requiescats full timer to good use. There's fluidity, pacing, and fun involved in that. Auto attack damage is just another number added to our total that the devs raise and lower against our will. Auto attacking during Holy Spirit means absolutely nothing when it's our "total dps" that the game is balanced around.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

If Warrior has 500 potency Fell Cleave, why Paladin can't have 420 potency Holy Spirit?

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because WAR doesn't have Goring Blade. both the other tanks lost their DoTs, PLD is the only one that still has one. it makes sense that PLD is less about big hits and more consistent smaller hits.

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Originally Posted by kattzkitti

Also, while you're here, please consider removing both Requiscat and Spirits Within.

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Most people don't like this but i agree. Most jobs got trimmed and even though Spirits don't serve much real purpose without silence it's still there. i'm not for reducing overall PLD damage, if they want to maintain the potency they can lower the recast for Shield Swipe. i think they wanted to keep the Spirits Within name though (it'd be fine merged with Requiscat so that it's one thing).

>Holy Spirit potency reduced from 430 to 400

Thank you Squeenix, thank you so much for meeting my request. Even if it had nothing to do with my thread, you handled the nerf the way I hoped for and I am grateful for that.