Paladin Advice please.

[LutinaWolfstine]

Okay so been away for little bit came back and jumped into my main scholar and got it to 60, How ever my off class is paladin and i have kinda forgot the rotations and am just about to start leveling it in next day or so.

So to keep it short can someone give me a rundown of the paladin rotation as it stands now and what order you pop your cool down for defense buffs.

also any other tips or tricks that can help would be nice as like i said its my second class i fall back on.

[Tam_Hawkins]

For Paladin you have your usual RoH Rotation for increasing enmity and applying the str- debuff
but we got two new finischers:
first a dot riot blade->goring blade which is quit potend and should be apllyed as soon as possible (so to say as soon as you got enough enmity, sometimes one or two flashes are enough but that depends on your Equipment)
the next would be savage blade -> royal authority, RO has a potency of 340 and as lond as your GB dot ticks and you have enough enmyty you should use it. Good think: if you started RA Combo and see that you Need the str debuff or more enmity you can just Switch to RoH as they both Combo from savage blade.

Cool downs should (in General) be used depending on their cool down times (so 90sec before 120sec and so on) but that can differ depending on the fight. One think is a new CD we got: Sheltron, cd of 30sec and guarantees a 100% block for the next blockable attack (also gives back quite some mp) this should either be ready for every tank buster or if the fights do not have Tank Busters (or you don't know them yet) as much as possible.

other tips: i did not do this my self yet (as i have no understanding of macros) but using a macro to anounce Divine veil might be good as this skill only activates when you are healed by someone else.

[PurplePanther]

The basic combos I do are Flash, Circle of Scorn, then ROH, then Riot Blade Combo, Flash, Goring Blade, ROH, once you have enough enmity you can basically just use Royal Authority for the rest of the fight to increase damage. Although I would recommend being very careful about that with a fresh 60, not a lot of DPS seem to know what self control is with all their new things. So until you get a higher item level, you're basically going to be a flash turret in my experience.

[ZodiacSoldier]

For the basic boss rotation I like to RoH combo once or twice then apply Goring Blade Dot, after that you can use Royal Authority. Use shield swipe on proc and weave in a flash here or there if you are starting to get low on TP.

So basically its this order.

Shield Swipe procs > Keep Rage of Halone debuff up / or if losing aggro > Keep Goring Blade DoT up > Royal Authority > Flash when low on TP.

[GeekMatt]

For defencive CDs there are different ways of doing it. I recommend keeping Hallowed Ground and Sentinel for heavy hits/"oh shit" moments. The rest can be cycled for quite a bit of up-time, and should be done based on their CD times. So use Rampart first always if it's up and nothing else is active, then either Convalescence or Foresight, then the other, then Bulwark if you want. Alternatively you can use Bulwark for the specific purpose of increasing your block rate to proc Shield Swipe on command. Another option is to use convalescence when your hp is low to help your healer top you off. If you take that approach, I recommend stacking Awareness with Convalescence to prevent sudden spikes in damage at the same time. I use the first method but if I notice I'm getting low fast, I will pop convalescence and awareness regardless

Levelling to 60 you get Shelltron at 52, which blocks one physical hit and is pretty weak mitigation unless it's very well timed, but it has an extremely short CD and restores mp, so unless I have a planned purpose for it I just keep it on CD for mitigation, MP, and sometimes for more Shield Swipe. Devine Veil at 56; outside of planned usage right before raid damage, it's ok to use it a little recklessly--it shields the party after a healer heals you and usually won't have much impact outside of more hardcore content (I'm a fan of using all my skills regularly).

Clemecy at level 58 is like a Cure II that costs over 1/3 of your mp. You're a healer so when to use this shouldn't be difficult for you--the added benefit of this skill is if you heal someone in your party other than yourself you gain 50% of the heal to yourself. I use it on party members if they get dangerously low most often, and myself in rare life or death situations.

[LutinaWolfstine]

Thanks as for the healing skill sounds like a good panic button if a healer is down or someone if low like you said and is good to know you only get 3 casts per bar i was unsure if it used mp as the site i checked the skill did not have an mp cost on it.

[Tam_Hawkins]

Thanks as for the healing skill sounds like a good panic button if a healer is down or someone if low like you said and is good to know you only get 3 casts per bar i was unsure if it used mp as the site i checked the skill did not have an mp cost on it.

it cost roughly 2/5 of our max mp, but it heals for a lot so i think that is not the problem sometimes you get interupted that can be pretty bad but doesnt happen that often (at least in the 2 lvl 60 dungeons, in Alex i just used it once while being attacked and was immediatly interupted so not sure how good it works there)

[Adrasteia]

Shield Swipe procs > Keep Rage of Halone debuff up / or if losing aggro > Keep Goring Blade DoT up > Royal Authority > Flash when low on TP.

I haven't run the numbers, but I believe Shield Swipe is a DPS loss if you use it over executing a Royal Authority combo. You can fit in roughly two of them comfortably during your average cycle (Rage of Halone -> Goring Blade -> Royal Authority) without losing either Goring or Rage of Halone, but more than that is a DPS loss.

[SirTaint]

I haven't run the numbers, but I believe Shield Swipe is a DPS loss if you use it over executing a Royal Authority combo. You can fit in roughly two of them comfortably during your average cycle (Rage of Halone -> Goring Blade -> Royal Authority) without losing either Goring or Rage of Halone, but more than that is a DPS loss.

You actually can't fit in any. You can get in 8 GCDs per Goring at the moment. Even at 554 skill speed I can still only fit in 8.

Our basic combo is:
Goring > 1 > 2 > Halone > 1 > 2 > Royal > 1 >2 > Goring

Royal/Halone depends on hate/dps needs.

Swipe is borderline useless right now and a DPS loss. It is however a TP gain. If Bulwark is up you can do 3 swipes instead of your a 1,2,3 combo. Of I you get a swipe near the beginning of the rotation plus have Sheltron up you can play with RNG for a 3rd proc. This would only be used for TP gains, hate and DPS should be regulated with Halone/Royal.

[RiisWolf]

Do NOT focus on MP regeneration long before the fight is over.

If for whatever reason you find yourself deadlocked into using nothing but flash, use riot blade in between flashes to maintain threat.