How do these changes fix the issues with Paladin?

[Aethaeryn]

Tp reduction and a dps increase. Seems pretty nice to me.

Since shield swiping will likely still require a successful block (reprisal is drk's equivalent with parry and is also an "Ability"), it'll be a small upgrade for a main tank paladin on a boss that uses physical damage. As offtank, it won't do anything. Person that said it was a 70dps increase is assuming you can use it immediately every 15 seconds, but they didn't say it won't require a successful block to trigger it.

10 tp off goring blade is not going to be noticed. The shield bash change is nice for people doing A4S probably?

[rawker]

Since shield swiping will likely still require a successful block (reprisal is drk's equivalent with parry and is also an "Ability"), it'll be a small upgrade for a main tank paladin on a boss that uses physical damage. As offtank, it won't do anything. Person that said it was a 70dps increase is assuming you can use it immediately every 15 seconds, but they didn't say it won't require a successful block to trigger it.

10 tp off goring blade is not going to be noticed. The shield bash change is nice for people doing A4S probably?

then keep promoting that rook auto-turret of yours

[Aethaeryn]

then keep promoting that rook auto-turret of yours

Cute. :P I switched to back to PLD about a month ago, though. I was main PLD back when t5 was still relevant content.

Oh, it will be.

The TP decrease on GB drops the TP drain to 110 meaning that Paladins will last about 9% longer before they run out of TP.

That means we'll last 3 minutes instead of 2:45 on stationary targets that have no downtime. Super exciting? A DRK not using grit lasts about 3:30 and warrior lasts until its hands fall off. I don't know how that translates to A3S/A4S since my static imploded like most did, but obviously you'll last longer on fights where you have some downtime even without the change.

[Ultimatecalibur]

10 tp off goring blade is not going to be noticed.

Oh, it will be.

Currently the GB->RA->RA/RoH rotation burns through 570 TP over 22.5 seconds with a GcD of 2.5. In that same amount of time you recover ~450 TP (420 with 7 ticks and 480 with 8 ticks). Which means using the rotation is a 120 TP drain every 22.5 seconds. The TP decrease on GB drops the TP drain to 110 meaning that Paladins will last about 9% longer before they run out of TP.

The shield bash change is nice for people doing A4S probably?

We don't know how good stuns will be for the 3.1 content, if stuns can be used to kill NMs and bosses faster/easier then its a significant cost reduction.

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

Since shield swiping will likely still require a successful block (reprisal is drk's equivalent with parry and is also an "Ability"), it'll be a small upgrade for a main tank paladin on a boss that uses physical damage. As offtank, it won't do anything. Person that said it was a 70dps increase is assuming you can use it immediately every 15 seconds, but they didn't say it won't require a successful block to trigger it.

10 tp off goring blade is not going to be noticed. The shield bash change is nice for people doing A4S probably?

If this change to Shield Swipe still requires an activator this is a direct downgrade to dps, enmity and utility. As soon as the expansion came out Shield Swipe became useless for anything other than crowd control as its damage and enmity multiplier weren't bumped up high enough to compete with the new skills given to DPS and Healer roles. I started noticing its lackluster performance while leveling and now in A2s I have since been tempted to remove it from my hotbar. Goring Blade and Royal Authority more than made up for trying to use Shield Swipe like it was in 2.X. It's the same case for Fracture as well, Goring Blade pretty much single handedly rendered Fracture worthless on Paladin. Especially since it costs 80 TP as well. Mercy Stroke actually took the place for me since it's free damage and I **might** get some HP back if I somehow time it absolutely perfectly.....Mercy Stroke should have been Sole Survivor all along.

[Freyyy]

If this change to Shield Swipe still requires an activator this is a direct downgrade to dps, enmity and utility.

I think you're not realizing that an oGCD cannot be a DPS loss ? Even if its potency was 1 it would still be an increase compared to what using it provides in 3.0, because it's changing from being on the GCD to being off the GCD, it's basically FREE DAMAGE. What's wrong with you guys not understanding that ? The fact that it requires an activator doesn't change anything and the activator required which is blocking is happening super often with a PLD. Sheltron gives you the possibility to at least get that Shield Swipe every 30 sec, you just need a random block in between these 30sec in order to have it almost on cooldown. That's a fucking good buff to the skill and an actual increase in DPS AND enmity generation for PLD, and it means that it will require less RoH to maintain aggro, thus leading into more DPS gain from having the possibility to use RA more.

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

I think you're not realizing that an oGCD cannot be a DPS loss ? Even if its potency was 1 it would still be an increase compared to what using it provides in 3.0, because it's changing from being on the GCD to being off the GCD, it's basically FREE DAMAGE. What's wrong with you guys not understanding that ? The fact that it requires an activator doesn't change anything and the activator required which is blocking is happening super often with a PLD. Sheltron gives you the possibility to at least get that Shield Swipe every 30 sec, you just need a random block in between these 30sec in order to have it almost on cooldown. That's a fucking good buff to the skill and an actual increase in DPS AND enmity generation for PLD, and it means that it will require less RoH to maintain aggro, thus leading into more DPS gain from having the possibility to use RA more.

'I'll post it here too, the changes to Shield Swipe should have been the beginning of the list of adjustments, not essentially the end of them. The people on this forum are throwing out ridiculous figures for the relative DPS adjustment that are just totally detached from reality. 5%? 7%? 9%? Really guys? Look up my A1S kill this last week on FFLogs and Reprisal on A1S, which was pushed every time it came up, on a boss with a physical auto-attack uptime of 100% every time they're on screen yielded 2.35% of my damage done. That's it. Shield Swipe in 3.1 used perfectly on cooldown, with a 0ms lapse between uses, is an increase over Reprisal of 90 potency. That's a nice, rounded 30% increase over Reprisal. Factor that into Reprisal's damage and you end up at just over 3%.

This is roughly a 3% damage increase, by the numbers. Stop making shit up.

EDIT: I should also note, that's a 3% increase, ONLY while main tanking, does nothing to solve the problems the job faces. It's something, but the job is still fundamentally broken in the current meta.' ---Kyne Lyons

I'm inclined to agree with him in that this is in no way as great a change as people are making it out to be and has actually changed the job for the worst. This is not enough from them to warrant this kind of praise in the slightest. You only focused on the DPS part of my statement as well....DPS certainly is an issue, but it's not the only issue Paladins face with having something like this changed. Pacification in dungeons was a good thing when you noticed your healer somewhat struggling to heal you, and that's gone now since it's a 15 second recast time. We've been waiting for over 4 months and THIS is the best they can do????? I'm growing increasingly tired of them forcing EITHER Dark Knight or Paladin to be main tank all the time every time. People should have at least some choice.

[Freyyy]

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I never said that it was a huge DPS increase, it's just a huge buff for the skill itself, and I never said that PLD didn't need any more changes. Yeah, its DPS will still be shite compared to the other tanks even after this change, but it will be LESS shite. It's an increase. What you were basically stating is that it was a loss, which is false. I also never said that PLD only needed tweaks on the DPS side of things. I just pointed out the mistake you made about judging the change to Shield Swipe as a DPS and enmity loss since it's obviously an increase in both domains.

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

I never said that it was a huge DPS increase, it's just a huge buff for the skill itself, and I never said that PLD didn't need any more changes. Yeah, its DPS will still be shite compared to the other tanks even after this change, but it will be LESS shite. It's an increase. What you were basically stating is that it was a loss, which is false. I also never said that PLD only needed tweaks on the DPS side of things. I just pointed out the mistake you made about judging the change to Shield Swipe as a DPS and enmity loss since it's obviously an increase in both domains.

I'm not willing to be as easily pleased as some people. This isn't good enough to settle down and forget Paladins being mocked since 2.1 in increasing frequency meanwhile the company doesn't give a shit to fix things for all jobs yet has the time to damned near perfect 3-4 of them. It's inexcusable and "slightly better" isn't slightly better to me. I'll admit that some of my statements are slightly erroneous but just saying 'hey it's slightly less than dog shit now' isn't something that should even be uttered from people's mouths.

[Freyyy]

I'm not willing to be as easily pleased as some people. This isn't good enough to settle down and forget Paladins being mocked since 2.1 in increasing frequency meanwhile the company doesn't give a shit to fix things for all jobs yet has the time to damned near perfect 3-4 of them. It's inexcusable and "slightly better" isn't slightly better to me. I'll admit that some of my statements are slightly erroneous but just saying 'hey it's slightly less than dog shit now' isn't something that should even be uttered from people's mouths.

I'm not saying that Paladins should be pleased with that. I'm just saying that the Shield Swipe change is a buff, that's all. Yeah they need more, a lot more, but it's not because they need more that this change is negative. It's still an increase in performance at some degree. Actually I think that tank changes are gonna come in 3.2. Yoshi stated in the last interview that he wants to alleviate the differences between tanks in terms of weaknesses and strengths in order to prevent one from being almost excluded from raid content like PLD is right now or like WAR was in 2.0. We also know that they want to change the encounter design, they'll also change the damage calculation for tanks, and the accessories are gonna be reworked (they said that the new raid and token accessories from 3.2 will be much more powerful than now). The meta might change a lot in 3.2, they can't do anything to change the meta in 3.1 because it doesn't bring a new raid tier, it just adds more side content to the already established 3.0 meta.

I don't know where you saw that PLD is being mocked since 2.1... Until 2.55 it was the most popular MT and everyone loved it. PLD's fall started with 3.0 and will hopefully for all PLD mains end in 3.2 with the release of the next raid tier.