A thought on Paladin, sheil swipe

[Kitru]

Full duration Fracture is 220 potency per GCD; Halone combo averages out to 186.66 per GCD.

Halone is 150 + 200 + 260 = 203.33 potency/GCD. Fracture is a *highly* marginal increase in total DPS since you only get 220 potency every 9 GCDs (since it breaks combos and lasts 18 seconds), which means that using it increases potency/GCD from 203.33 to 205, which is a whole .8% increase in total damage (less actually, because you're getting 83.33/GCD from auto-attack, 25 from CoS, and ~25 from Spirits Within, which brings it down to .5%).

Fracture is *incredibly* mediocre.

[Menae]

Halone is 150 + 200 + 260 = 203.33 potency/GCD. Fracture is a *highly* marginal increase in total DPS since you only get 220 potency every 9 GCDs (since it breaks combos and lasts 18 seconds), which means that using it increases potency/GCD from 203.33 to 205, which is a whole .8% increase in total damage (less actually, because you're getting 83.33/GCD from auto-attack, 25 from CoS, and ~25 from Spirits Within, which brings it down to .5%).

Fracture is *incredibly* mediocre.

Oh, hey, thought Fast blade was 100 instead of 150 for some reason.

No argument that it's a pretty poor cross class. That said, it's a dps increase, which is the opposite of what saber said. I still wouldn't TAKE it, because it's also a massive enmity loss and I'd much rather not maintain dots on my tank, thank you very much. But it's still a dps increase!

[Kitru]

But it's still a dps increase!

It actually gets kind of fuzzy there when you factor in resources. It's a .5% increase in damage dealt but a 2.6% increase in resource consumption (65/GCD compared to 63.33/GCD). The straight Halone combo gets 3.21 potency/TP whereas the Halone + Fracture set up gets 3.15. The Halone + Fracture starts slightly better than straight Halone but, once the set up runs out of TP, it actually falls behind straight Halone by a fair deal more than its previous advantage.

[Menae]

It actually gets kind of fuzzy there when you factor in resources. It's a .5% increase in damage dealt but a 2.6% increase in resource consumption (65/GCD compared to 63.33/GCD). The straight Halone combo gets 3.21 potency/TP whereas the Halone + Fracture set up gets 3.15. The Halone + Fracture starts slightly better than straight Halone but, once the set up runs out of TP, it actually falls behind straight Halone by a fair deal more than its previous advantage.

Yeah, again, the 150 potency fast blade threw off my numbers, so it would be less efficiency, true. Though if you are going for dps, you could offset with some shield swipe...

AND BACK AROUND TO THE ORIGINAL TOPIC!

[Darkwalker53]

As most have previously stated it is a good way to manage excessive TP use. I do think however they should change the pacification debuff. Maybe a good change would be the application of a debuff to the target that increases induction times (a spell speed/skill speed debuff) by 5 - 10% for 10 seconds with diminishing returns upon re-application to 6sec, 2sec, immune then reset.

Just a thought...