Quote Originally Posted by Gserpent View Post
What? No, dude. The PLD team *had* to engage in that gimmick to avoid shuffling a ton of extra work onto the healers. Either you did as I described above or you forced one or potentially both healers to have to pump GCD heals into the PLD to keep them alive through the bleed.

The WAR uses Nascent Flash on the PLD so that the PLD gets the raw mitigation necessary to survive through the bleed without giving the healers apoplexy. This means the WAR cannot use Bloodwhetting on themselves to tank up. The PLD then gives the WAR Intervention for 20+15% mit to compensate. Doing *anything else* means the healers have to adjust, which means GCD healing, which cuts raid DPS. Given how overtuned P8S was on arrival, this loss of DPS was actually relevant at the time... especially since you were *already* behind the DPS curve due to how low PLD's DPS was before the patch adjustments at the time.

I don't know how I can be more clear about this. PLD either has to stock 100 gauge for the tankbusters, or the healers have to sack their DPS to compensate. At least with crafted ilvls. I think it's less strenuous once you're geared up and doing reclears.
I don't know how I can be more clear about this, any other tank cannot use two of their short cd mitigations at once, it's unique to Paladin So the idea that for every double tank buster that you have to use 100 gauge just so healers don't struggle makes no sense, as PLD would be meta if healers had to pump out heals if the PLD didn't spend Intervention and holyshelltron on both tanks, Most the time if your warrior is going to use flash on you, all you would need is a Intervention on them and a sentinel (as using sent/rampart will further buff intervention and your Defence + warriors flash on you), using holyshelltron at that point isn't really Needed, you already got your intervention both you and the warrior are getting healed by flash, your intervention is regen on him and bassically 30% mitigation + whatever personal warrior might use, Using Holy shelltron on that situation isn't really needed, might be nice?

Paladins the only tank job that could use Holy shelltron on some autos and uh oh a tank buster coming up! oh well you can intervention the other tank or Use Shelltron on self and the tank can use their short cd on you and/or self then you both can use another personal and you'll likely not burden your healers.

PLD's issues aren't that you can store 2 of your CD's at once, which by my testing eariler charge back a little bit faster then war/gnb, that's like the only benefit to playing PLD actually, It's Issues are everything else such as Cover, LONG invul, No controlled sustain, Missing CD's other tanks have in place of other stuff, "blocks" from holyshelltron not working properly.