Quote Originally Posted by rawker View Post
Well... You can turn off shield oath if you really wanted to land that FoF Goring Blade+CoS for the strong dot then switch back to Shield Oath. That's only 1 GCD and 50 pot less auto attack for not activating sword oath. It is only advisable to activate sword oath if the boss has no deadly mechanic to do for the next minute or so. If you really are going to push it, like A4S, then you can simply activate sentinel and still have more mitigation than shield oath and rampart, combined.
that would only advisable if PLD was OT since Discord comes around often he would need Sentinel to reduce Discord.