Can anyone give me some PLD tips?

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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.

What ... are you talking about?

Firstly, Rage of Halone is a 10% strength debuff after level 40, not 5%. Secondly, where are you pulling this magical number of 500 total damage from? The average mob in level 60 content hits for roughly 1200-2500 damage per auto attack (that's not including crits and non-auto attacks). The idea that mobs are only doing a total of 500 damage is a laughable understatement. It's more likely that you're mitigating 200-500 dmg every 2 seconds from a single target. Spread that across multiple targets (say, 4 or more) and you're looking at mitigated damage in the thousands over the course of your average mob pull.

Further, you're way off the mark on Goring Blade's application. GB hits for its full potency if, and only if, it is allowed to tick for it's entire duration. The full duration of GB is 24 seconds. The average Dps group in DF can clear a mob of 3 within that time (and yes, I have timed it using buff timers). Throw in a few Flashes, and the odds of GB going for it's full tick is very low, unless you happen to have very slow Dps team. Further, those 2-3 Flashes that you recommend blow off RoH's combined potency in favour of a whoping ZERO dps over 5 seconds. All this together means that the application of Goring Blade within mob pulls is almost always a potency loss over Royal Authority or even RoH.

The only thing you're even remotely close to being accurate about is utilizing SwO during boss pulls, and even then you're overstating by quite a bit. With comparable gear, there is no way in hell that you are holding hate on a boss over a competent Dps without using RoH at least once, especially not in a raid. If you are, then you're dps team are definitely below the average. Flash is not an option either, because it's a Dps loss of 100% in all single target fights ... so, what's the magical method here? Because the math certainly doesn't add up.