Can anyone give me some PLD tips?

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You forgot [/ QUOTE], which makes your post a bit less serious.

Thanks. Totally missed it. Fixed.

Shield Swipe wasn't nerfed. It was buffed. Previosuely, there was little point in using shield swipe every 2.5 sec, when you had an opportunity. Now you can use it as oGCD.

You're misunderstanding what I mean by "nerfed." Taking Shield Swipe off of the GCD was a buff to Pld's overall single-target Dps; however, the actual potency of the attack was reduced from 210 to 150. Each individual hit of the move is weaker than it once was, and it's enmity multiplier was not adjusted at all to compensate for that reduction. It's dps value also varied dramatically depending on the circumstances, as a full 2.5 second rotation of shield swipe (proc'd by Bulwark) generated a combo potency of 630. That was higher than an RoH combo, provided enmity on every hit, and pacified the target. At the time, a flat increase to single-target dps was preferable because of strict dps checks in that content; however, it hardly made a difference and Pld's were still not a preferable choice, hence the dps checks in Midas and Sephirot are substantially easier.