Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
At MAX level and with top end gear, you should able to reduce your use of Flash usage to the duration of its blind application, varying slightly on the number of enemies you are pulling (additional Flashes may be needed if the number of enemies exceeds your ability to land enmity strikes on all of them before losing hate).
For the record:
When you're max level on Paladin with good (i220+) gear, you should use few more than 3 Rage of Halone combos in every level 60 dungeon run you do. Once at the start of each boss if you plan to be in Sword Oath, and from there only used during said boss battles to replace a Royal Authority when you need extra hate. Beyond that, you should never press the button.

With Shield Oath active, you can Flash 2-3 times and then drop a Goring Blade combo (with CoS, FoF optional) on the first target your ST dps is hitting, and maintain FB>RB on that target while spreading GB to the rest of the mobs. If you /need/ a Savage Blade to maintain hate, follow it with Royal Authority, not RoH. The latter should really never be needed in trash pulls when you're evenly-geared. 5% Strength debuff on a single mob who's doing all of 500 damage to you isn't worthy of note for its utility to mitigation.

Also with Shield Oath active, you should never ever need to hit RoH to maintain hate on a dungeon boss. Ever. I don't even need it to hold raid bosses if I tank in Shield Oath!


Also actually on-topic: At any level, if you use FoF before the third hit of your combo, delayed about halfway through the gcd, you can get off a total of 5 combo finishers under that FoF, compared to 4 if you use it at any other time. Especially helpful when fighting from 26-39, when you're stuck with no stance or with Sword Oath. An extra FoF RoH is a significant boon to your enmity generation at the start of a boss.

Other word of advice: Pre-26, Fast Blade > Riot Blade is your highest potency combo. If you safely have hate, you should be using this for additional damage. In solo content out of dungeons, this is the combo you should be spamming. Rage of Halone changes this, making Fast Blade > Savage Blade > Rage of Halone your best combo until level 54.)