Core Issues With 4.x Dark Knight

[Chrono_Rising]

For PLD, by having Shield Oath, you lose 15% of your damage instantly, plus the effect of Sword Oath wich is basically 50 potency every 2.24 seconds. AFAIK, the best rotation on PLD is GB-RA-RA-HS*5-GB-RA-RA (repeat), this rotation build up your total potency to 8250 (1070 for each GB, 760 for each RA, and 200 for HP Spam). The best part of this rotation is that it's basically a 1 minute rotation to line with Requiescat. So during this rotation, you can use 1 Requiescat for 350 pot, 3 Spirits Within for 600 potency (at best) and 4 Shield Swipe for 600 pot (at best), increasing your potency to 9800. On top of that, you can add Circle Of Scorn and its 250 potency every 25s, basically adding another 600 potency every minute, for a grand total of 10400 base potency. When applying ShOath, you remove 15%, ending at 8840. When applying SwOath, you add 1339 potency to your total (50/2.24*60), ending at 11739. So, between the two, you're losing at least 25% of damage.

Sword Oath is 75 potency per auttoattack hit. Also you include the full 60 seconds for the sword oath buff, this may or may not actually work out since you might not auto when spamming holy spirit.

This analysis in general is not going to match in game application. First, blood price I imagine has a context in which it is restoring as much mana as blood weapon, and the missing context makes it extremely difficult to compare notes on. Warrior is by far the most difficult to play this kind of analysis with because it has so many moves which ignore the damage penalty inflicted by its own tank stance. The only tank which you analysis properly could apply to is paladin because its skills are not changed depending on stance. And thats what the issues with your analysis boil down to.

If you want a proper analysis you will need to go ahead and pull endless amounts of data comparing full time dps stance to full time tank stance to get an actual answer on this one. Play optimally in tank stance, play optimally in dps stance, and compare the % difference in damage.

I have been typing this reply and all of the reasons for why you analysis is lacking, but rather than posting a small novel I settled on just giving the reason above as the reason. I've come to a conclusion. Your post has nothing to do with anything about dark knight design once you stopped talking about dark knight, Dark Knight is the express purpose of this thread. This proves nothing, and is in general taking away from the conversation. What does this have to do with the design and core issues with Dark Knight?