Media Tour Paladin vs. 4.0 Patch Paladin

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FoF got nerfed, 25s duration, increase physical dmg by 25%, down from 30s and 30%.

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Originally Posted by Galactimus

Thus far I see:

- Rampart is 10% mitigation instead of 20%. (Role Skill)
- Holy Spirit increases the Oath Gauge by 20.
- Fight or Flight increases damage by 25% for 25 seconds instead of 30 and 30

Anyone pick up on any others?

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Holy Spirit oath gauge increase is Shield Oath only

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Fury

Holy Spirit oath gauge increase is Shield Oath only

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That's awesome, nice catch. Really helps remedy gauge generation on single bosses.

Makes sense that they'd try not to leave "tank mode" gauge generation up to RNG so much, especially since Bulwark has kept its long cooldown. Also I don't think they made it so you can block during cast times so that also makes sense.

Looks like Cover works on physical and magical damage now too, since it says "take all damage intended for another party member."

Neat if it's so!

They also added "Does not activate with certain attacks" to it. I wonder what that will include.

Chances are, it's the same attacks as Hallowed Ground, Holmgang, and Living Dead.

why on earth did they nerf rampart wtc

I don't think Rampart is nerfed. There are two tooltips in the mined data. One is ID 10 which is presumably the old Rampart that is no longer in the game and is 10% (untraited). The other is ID 7531 that is presumably the new Rampart and is 20%.

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Originally Posted by eagledorf

I don't think Rampart is nerfed. There are two tooltips in the mined data. One is ID 10 which is presumably the old Rampart that is no longer in the game and is 10% (untraited). The other is ID 7531 that is presumably the new Rampart and is 20%.

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i was seriously about to snap like , we lost foresight, bloodbath, and each tank has to buy a df cool down back because of rampart. It better still be 20 percent 10 percent would be a slap in the face

PLD's casting time of Holyspirit also got buffed from 2.0 secs to 1.5 secs.
It might not seem like much, but the shorter casting time means you can effectively get 1 extra-additional Holyspirit under the 20% ResQ. Buff, which is yet another seizable DPS increase, in addition to more autoattacks inbetween the Holyspirit spam.

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Originally Posted by Thoro39

PLD's casting time of Holyspirit also got buffed from 2.0 secs to 1.5 secs.
It might not seem like much, but the shorter casting time means you can effectively get 1 extra-additional Holyspirit under the 20% ResQ. Buff, which is yet another seizable DPS increase, in addition to more autoattacks inbetween the Holyspirit spam.

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Its casting time does not change how much you could spam it since 2s is already below GCD.

Requiescat is 12 seconds. With a 2 second cast 5 casts takes exactly 12 seconds to finish (2.5x4+2) so your last one will not get buffed. With a 1.5 second cast you can get 5 buffed casts.

This is definitely a good change though because otherwise you'd see PLD running around with 1-2 spell speed materia on their gear to get that 5th one in. I was not looking forward to that -.-

So I thought clemency didnt use the same amount of mp it clearly does thats kinda upsetting

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Originally Posted by bswpayton

So I thought clemency didnt use the same amount of mp it clearly does thats kinda upsetting

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There is a trait at 64 that halves the mp cost.

I'm so ecstatic about the new Sprint animation Q_Q