Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Or give them back War Drum from 1.0. A conal Shield Swipe that increases enmity. (Maybe as a trait instead of Enhanced Awareness)

AoE damage and threat is a thing where PLD is clearly far behind the other two tanks.
Sword Oath should also increase the potency of skills and not Auto-attack, because our enmity modifiers would benefit from it, for the part where tanking in Sword Oath is doable.
The enmity modifiers just need to be adjusted to match their counterparts. It's only logical. With that and the added enmity gain from adjusting Shield Swipe's potency, PLDs should be fine with enmity generation. You aren't realizing that if you adjust SS's potency, it will end up generating more enmity per GCD than the RoH combo so it will buff PLD enmity generation by a lot already -- maybe even allowing PLD to stop using RoH entirely outside of snap aggro and openers. Changing Sword Oath to a flat damage increase just lacks flavor and uniqueness.

I think the better solution to AoE damage is to just add damage to Flash. Change the trait to +a small amount of potency with an enmity modifer since the blind is not very useful. It's the easier change. It doesn't add damage to PLD's single-target rotations and doesn't require them to completely redo an existing skill or add a new skill.

I also forgot to mention that making SS more regularly used also fixes PLD's TP issues while MTing. They will still have TP issues while OTing but in the event that you can't get a Goad or BRD/MCH, you can just cast a SS to bridge the TP gap or even spam the new Flash kind of like how DRK spams unmend.