Quote Originally Posted by Riki_Namu View Post
Everyone is talking about Damage output. The big elephant in the room is PLD hate is very low compared to the other two. Leveling a PLD is literally a struggle of flash spam and rotating enemies as you desperately try to build enough hate to keep them on you.
This is a common misconception on Pld. Firstly, their OT Dps is not actually all that much lower from Drks (it is, but only by a tiny amount that should not really effect Dps checks). Secondly, In mob pulls you do have to rotate targets, certainly, but you absolutely should not be spamming Flash.

Any Pld using more Flash spams than a Drk using Unleash or even a War's Overpower is not rotating their Hate combo efficiently enough. The reason for this is because of Shield Swipe. Unlike Drk and War (who both only have 5 moves that grant "additional enmity"), Pld has 6 moves which grant additional enmity at the expense of the oGCD's that Drk and War take advantage of. A proper Pld rotation sees 2 Flashes on average. As long as every single enmity granting move is landing on new targets (prioritizing the ones that are taking the most dmg from the Dps) you should never have a need to spam additional Flashes. After your initial combo, Shield Swipe essentially becomes a +1 button for peripheral targets that might be getting hate from AoE Dps. You definitely have to pay more attention than War's and Drks, but spams are not necessary.

Now, for single target enmity it's a whole other beast. Pld's are pretty well locked into their RoH combo to hold hate, and even that is sometimes not enough (requiring 2 RoH combos) if you have a Dps in your group that actually know what they're doing.