My Problem with PLD Oath Gauge

[Liou]

If you really must stay in Shield Oath, you can quickly increase your Oath Gauge by casting Holy Spirit. 2-3 casts is enough to fill it enough for shelltron to be up.

[VenKitsune]

out of all the gauges added to the jobs in 4.x i will admit that PLDs feels the most useless, its only really used for 2 abilities that could of just as easily costed mana instead.

[BorisDaBlade]

Wait, what do you mean "swapped it out for Shirk"? Intervention is a native ability, and Shirk is a role ability. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Yes, but when I play on controller and only have 32 buttons for 38 pld actions, I have to pick and choose what I bring.

[dragonseth07]

Yes, but when I play on controller and only have 32 buttons for 38 pld actions, I have to pick and choose what I bring.

I don't know how, since I don't play on a controller, but you can get more binds. We can't afford to lose buttons on any job, even PLD.

[Quri]

Yes, but when I play on controller and only have 32 buttons for 38 pld actions, I have to pick and choose what I bring.

I manage to slot in all of the Paladin skills including five role actions and I ended up with 6 slots left as filler. You using the cross hotbars?

[VenKitsune]

Yes, but when I play on controller and only have 32 buttons for 38 pld actions, I have to pick and choose what I bring.

extended hotbars where? learn to use those on controller (enabled in options menu) and you'll have no problems, AT ALL.

[AlexSag]

out of all the gauges added to the jobs in 4.x i will admit that PLDs feels the most useless, its only really used for 2 abilities that could of just as easily costed mana instead.

Basically this. I love the job and hope to God they don't mess it up, but the gauge feels less dynamic and fun than those of other jobs.

[Poison_Rose]

Basically this. I love the job and hope to God they don't mess it up, but the gauge feels less dynamic and fun than those of other jobs.

Fully agree. I guess you could say it's not as... en-gauge-ing.

[Thela]

I forgot about intervention. I swapped it out for shirk for more dps during swaps. I'll have to play with it more. Having a hard time switching to swo during the opening phase of susano, due to pretty op dps in my PFs, so I'm kinda stuck using HS is Sho after fof.

Is there a good way (without nin) to help build aggro instead of wasting fof on roh combos?

There's only 2 ways to my knowledge for OT. Throw in an aggro combo every once in awhile, or provoke the boss when she casts the tankbuster on the MT (which is semi dangerous if the MT doesn't grab aggro back again before the cast finishes) I find that just doing an aggro combo every once in awhile works the best, sure its a small dps loss but you cannot be 2nd on aggro otherwise unless your dps players sucks.

If you're talking about actually tanking her as the MT then there is no way around using aggro combos once in awhile if you want to tank her in SO.

[Soraki-Muppe]

The oath gauge feels to me like SE saying "Oh well everyone else got one of these so I guess we will add on to the PLD", it feels like the only part of the job that was not well thought through, feels forced, weird and makes me wonder why it is there.
It is used for two skills that would have been better just having recasts, kinda like how sheltron used to work. Filling the gauge doesn't do anything either beside acting like a forced payment for those two skills. In shield oath it does not add anything like increasing the PLD change to block, in sword oath it does not increase the damage in any way... it just sits there.