Paladin Stormblood rotation guide

Good afternoon all

Can anyone recommend to me a good rotation guide (website, etc) for today's Paladin?

Thanks!

3 Rotations

Enmity - Pretty much used only at the start of a fight to secure aggro.
Fast > Savage > Halone
Fast > Riot > Goring
Fast > Savage > Halone
Fast > Savage > Halone
At this point you should be safe to move on to the DPS rotations for the rest of the fight.

Physical DPS Phase
Fast > Riot > Fight or Flight(if its available) > Goring
Fast > Riot > Royal
Fast > Riot > Royal
Repeat

Magic DPS Phase
Fast > Riot > Goring
Requiescat > Holy Spirit > Holy Spirit > Holy Spirit > Holy Spirit > Holy Spirit (sometimes you can only get 4 due to movement or lag)
Go back to Melee DPS till 80-100% mana and Requiescat is off CD.

Do not overlap Fight or Flight and Requiescat. The buffs they give are exclusive to physical for Fight or Flight and Magic for Requiescat.

I'm not the best PLD but I get the job done so there might be something better out there.

You can overlap fight or flight and requiscat by like a second, once you finish your second goring blade under fight or flight you'll have 1 or 2 secs left to use requiscat to have its damage buffed by 30% then fight or flight will wear off and you can start holy spiriting.

Fast > riot > FoF + goring > CoS > RoH or royal combo x 2 + spirits within > goring combo > requiscat (FoF wears off) > Holy Spirit/clemency x5 > goring combo > royal combo > repeat.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

You can overlap fight or flight and requiscat by like a second, once you finish your second goring blade under fight or flight you'll have 1 or 2 secs left to use requiscat to have its damage buffed by 30% then fight or flight will wear off and you can start holy spiriting.

Fast > riot > FoF + goring > CoS > RoH or royal combo x 2 + spirits within > goring combo > requiscat (FoF wears off) > Holy Spirit/clemency x5 > goring combo > royal combo > repeat.

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Doesn't the magic rotation take priority over the physical rotation?

You're still gonna wanna use some more holy spirit besides the ones you fit in requiescat; you'll have more mana than you can use on 4-5 holy spirits and they are higher dps/dpet than your standard combo. As long as you don't let goring drop and you have enough mana to use holy spirit throughout requiescat, holy spirit does more damage than even royal authority under ForF. Obviously if you can, use your "extra" holy spirits out of ForF.

Obviously your mileage may vary; depending on how much you use sheltron for mana recovery, whether you're in sword or shield oath, difficulty of the fight requiring healing or whatever else.

thank you all!

There was a thread in here going on about PLD openers if you can still find it, it sets a pretty good baseline to go to for the time being.

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Originally Posted by MomoOG

Doesn't the magic rotation take priority over the physical rotation?

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You want FoF buffed goring blade on as soon as possible and you'll want requiscat buffed by FoF too otherwise it's just lost potency every rotation since if you do it without FoF up first they'll never line up. So even though the magic rotation is higher potency you'll wanna start on physical.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

You want FoF buffed goring blade on as soon as possible and you'll want requiscat buffed by FoF too otherwise it's just lost potency every rotation since if you do it without FoF up first they'll never line up. So even though the magic rotation is higher potency you'll wanna start on physical.

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I originally thought this but I regularly get higher numbers if I ignore this idea and start with an unbuffed goring into requiscat+magic spam.

EDIT: actually nvm, it isn't much of a difference either way, might be better. Not really the expert for the numbers game so disregard.

The damage between starting with the Magical rotation (unbuffed Goring Blade into Requiescat -> Holy Spirit) and the Physical rotation (Goring Blade -> Royal Authority combos while under Fight or Flight) is pretty small. If anything, I'd say it depends on the fight mechanics. If it's a boss that requires you to move around a lot very early into the pull, the Goring Blade under Fight or Flight would be the better starter since it and Royal Authority can be done while staying mobile. If it's a fight that lets you sit in one spot at the start of the pull for a decent chunk of time, the Magical Rotation would be the better option.

Yo o/,

I dropped a bunch of stuff in here if you fancy a gander:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ase-Discussion

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Originally Posted by Otorinth

The damage between starting with the Magical rotation (unbuffed Goring Blade into Requiescat -> Holy Spirit) and the Physical rotation (Goring Blade -> Royal Authority combos while under Fight or Flight) is pretty small. If anything, I'd say it depends on the fight mechanics. If it's a boss that requires you to move around a lot very early into the pull, the Goring Blade under Fight or Flight would be the better starter since it and Royal Authority can be done while staying mobile. If it's a fight that lets you sit in one spot at the start of the pull for a decent chunk of time, the Magical Rotation would be the better option.

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I would also argue that if its a fight that would benefit from you having sheltrons available early on. than starting with magic rotation to build oath gauge fast in shield oath stance would be preferred.

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Originally Posted by Otorinth

The damage between starting with the Magical rotation (unbuffed Goring Blade into Requiescat -> Holy Spirit) and the Physical rotation (Goring Blade -> Royal Authority combos while under Fight or Flight) is pretty small. If anything, I'd say it depends on the fight mechanics. If it's a boss that requires you to move around a lot very early into the pull, the Goring Blade under Fight or Flight would be the better starter since it and Royal Authority can be done while staying mobile. If it's a fight that lets you sit in one spot at the start of the pull for a decent chunk of time, the Magical Rotation would be the better option.

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This really only applies for coordinated raids, but aligning the Holy Spirit spam under Requiescat with other raid buffs (like Trick Attack, Hyper Charge, Littany, etc) is better than aligning the FoF rotation.

Personally I find starting off with physical to be more fluid because it does feel good to go from buffed by FoF to being buffed by requiescat with no gap. and after doing some mental math in my head without any kind of 3rd party tools ;>_> The difference is negligible, starting with holy spirit did more damage to begin with but then it slowly dropped due to requiescat not being buffed by FoF. While the physical rotation started lower but just kept rising until it capped off, they pretty much ended up in the same place in the long term.

I dunno if this is right or not, but I've been doing

Step 1
Goring combo
Royal Combo
Holy spirit x2

Step 2
Goring combo
royal combo x2

Requiscat
Wait till you get back to step 1
Goring combo
Requiscat
Holy spirit until you're out of mp
revert to step 2

I've been using this as my ''dps'' rotation, because that fits in 2 holy spirits and the alternating makes sure I always have enough MP to make full use of Requiscat whenever it comes back around along with some help from sheltron, which I would always substitute the Requiscat casts in after a Royal x2 step