Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
Look at the selection of oGCDs that each job manages (outside of burst window buffs).
  • Paladin - Spirits Within, Circle of Scorn, Intervene (3)
Spirits Within, Circle of Scorn and Intervene are all on roughly 30s times which roughly doubles how often they are used in a 1 minute rotation. Alongside FoF and Requiscat which are used once per minute. A Paladin is using 8 offensive ogcds per minute with 5 different buttons.

  • Gunbreaker - Blasting Zone, Bow Shock, Rough Divide, Continuation (4)
Blasting Zone and Rough Divide are every 30s, Continuation happens 3 times every 30s, No Mercy and Bow Shock are every 60s and Bloodfest is 90s. Gunbreaker does ~12.6 ogcd every minute with 6 different buttons.

  • Warrior - Upheaval (1)
Warrior has 3 offensive ogcds (Upheavel, Infuriate, Inner Release) and one semi-offensive ogcd (Onslaught). Upheaval is on a 30s cooldown, Infuriate is on a 30s cooldown that shortens with each Fellcleave/Inner Chaos use and Inner Release is every 90s. Onslaught is 10s but shouldn't be used offensively outside IR. Given a rough estimate of 3.5 Infurates per minute the Warrior is doing ~6.8 offensive ogcds with 3 different buttons.

  • Dark Knight - Edge/Flood, Salted Earth, Plunge, Abyssal Drain, Carve and Spit, Living Shadow (6)
Edge/Flood are basically every 30s, Plunge is every 30s, Abyss Drain, CnS and Blood Weapon are 60s, Salted Earth and Delirium are every 90s and Living Shadow is every 120 mins. The Dark Knight uses ~8.8+ ogcds every minute with 8 different buttons.

The action on DRK happens as much between GCDs as it does on the GCD. Edge at 500 potency has as much impact if not more impact than most GCDs.
Most of the other tanks are doing that much also. Spirits Within and Circle of Scorn are doing 735 combined every 30s, Blasting Zone and Upheaval are 450 every 30s. DRK barely does more offensive ogcds than the Paladin even if it has more buttons dedicated to them.
Also, did you seriously just count the continuation combo as three unique GCDs? The only technical difference is that you're expected to roll your face across the keyboard instead of hammering your face against a single key when it's active. Let's face the truth: Requiescat = Inner Release = Delirium = Continuation.
As much as I would like the Continuation combo to be mapped to one gcd button and one ogcd button, at default, it is mapped to 3 different gcd buttons which gives a very different feel than the "press Fellcleave/Bloodspiller 5 times" bursts of WAR and DRK.

Paladin also has it's burst mapped to more than 1 gcd button (needing 1 for Holy Spirit and 1 for Confiteor) This kind of makes it distinct from the other tanks even if the effect of the burst is the same as the others.

Both the Paladin and Gunbreaker bursts feel different from the other 3 tanks which likely helps theirs distinguish them from IR.