Paladin skills

I've come back to the game at many many years and love playing the paladin. But at watching video on skills and skill rotation, I'm now starting to panic, there appears to be a ridiculously large number of skills to use and in a certain order. I know I'm not going to cope with this amount button.

How do people run / cope with these skills / abilities.

Literally just press buttons as they light up? The basic rotation is not complicated, after you get it down you can start to worry about aligning DoTs and FoF exactly. Chances are it falls into place fairly naturally at that point.

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Originally Posted by JudgementOni

I've come back to the game at many many years and love playing the paladin. But at watching video on skills and skill rotation, I'm now starting to panic, there appears to be a ridiculously large number of skills to use and in a certain order. I know I'm not going to cope with this amount button.

How do people run / cope with these skills / abilities.

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You practice, hit the striking dummy until you feel comfortable doing your rotation. The only reason you panic is if you get in your own head, just chill, it's not as much as you think it is. Just break down the rotation bit by bit and understand why it's executed as it is. The basic rotation is pretty straightforward.
There is optimisation routes too, but better you get the basics down first, so you don't overload yourself with too much information.

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Originally Posted by ThorneDynasty

Literally just press buttons as they light up? The basic rotation is not complicated, after you get it down you can start to worry about aligning DoTs and FoF exactly. Chances are it falls into place fairly naturally at that point.

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-16s FoF opener says hello.

Don't watch opener/rotation videos made for high end duty and raids just as you get back into the game. Just play the job, figure out the rotation by reading tooltips and trying stuff on a dummy and play some dungeons.
Once you figure out the basic you can look up optimized openers.

The rotation and opening is fairly simple and intuitive

Thanks all. Fingers crossed it falls I tip place as I level up

For rotation/action explanations of any class, I HEAVILY recommend watching WeskAlber on Youtube. Every expansion he goes through and updates his guides that detail every single ability of each class and recommended rotations. Sometimes I simplify his suggestions at the cost of min/maxing but his overviews are very helpful for understanding a class.

Playing paladin "properly" at a basic level is far easier than the super optimal spreadsheet gameplay you might see when you look up a guide. You get new things fairly intuitively and doesn't take much thought to put it all together.

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Originally Posted by Absimiliard

-16s FoF opener says hello.

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I literally said you can worry about optimization later. -16 FoF is really, really bottom priority for someone still trying to figure out the basic rotation. Even current tier savage you probably don't have to bother depending on the fight mechanics and if your party is really struggling to meet the enrage.

For me what really taught me the rotation is actually the sound the abilities make.
I used to look at goring blade to try to figure out when I should re-apply gore, but eventually it’s just doing micro-rotations that have a unique sound.
Gore
Atones
Req
Blades
Atones
Gore
Atones
Gore
Req
Blades
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You see the pattern, but you also HEAR the pattern