Fine-Tuning PLD rotation - tips?

[LilLemay]

Shield oath is nothing but a weaker inner beast, even without a nin in a group you shouldn't lose aggro to anyone unless you have a monk.

Monk is the only class that cannot decrease enemity, and if your blm doesn't want to spend time getting quelling then he doesn't need to be raiding, point blank period.

Even in a pld/drk situation, most of the dos is going to come from your group, it only means that BOTH tanks can sit in off tank stance without a issue. As a pld you should MT because your combos generate more aggro naturally and the drk does not.

You don't need a nin or slashing to clear this content you just need to work as a group.

I'm curious as to your thoughts on how ShO is a weaker IB o.o

[Sarcatica]

I'm curious as to your thoughts on how ShO is a weaker IB o.o

If you are looking into the best scenario for tanks, ShO/Grit is a weaker IB indeed, you are losing damage potential from each gcd consumed when switching stance. In the highest lvl of play, WAR don't even use Defiance for too long when pulling, much less Unchained.

You are free to look at the top speedrun parses via FFlogs for convincing data.