PLD changes; thoughts?

[Gserpent]

Well, my preference would have been to merge Req and Confiteor (Req is GCD, upgrades to Conf at 80) and have 3 combos, Conf-Faith-Truth-Valor, Fast-Riot-Goring-HS, and Fast-Riot-RA-Atonement. Each of these 3 combos would be 10s long, so you just build a rotation out of 6 of them. HS combo would spend MP, Atonement would regen it. Average 100% uptime gameplay requiring 2 Atones for every 3 HS's (the third is covered by natural MP regen), or 3 Atone/2 HS if Conf combo still requires MP. If you know you can't hit the boss for a while (High Concept), you'd be able to swap out Atones for the stronger HS combos, and make up the difference in MP economy via natural regen in the downtime.

Now, I'm thinking maybe we change the other combo into something like Shield Bash - Savage Blade - Royal Authority - Atonement, so there's one stabby animation in each combo, instead of this weird slash-stab-spinny-stabstabstab-magic we have now. And it'd make Shield Bash actually useful for something! The idea you quoted in the quote I'm now quoting is not like, the solution I'd necessarily want, but it's trying to work around what we're lumped with currently. Clearly they want certain things, like Goring to be not-SonicBreak, and Req to stay as a limpdick OGCD to activate your Conf window, instead of just removing it or reworking it and making Conf the 'activator', and we have to try and work around that unfortunately.

I'd have to look at all the guides and actually use my brain, which is something I try to avoid doing whenever possible, but aren't most burst windows initiated with an oGCD? Confiteor opening the window on a GCD seems like it would be odd man out.

Literally my first post ever on these forums. The pld changes make me sad. I've been a pld main since ARR beta, and i can honestly say absolutely none of what they implemented in regards to a new pld rotation feels good to me. The original pld rotation had a beautiful intuitive flow to it, this new thing has none of that. I did not need to fit into a 2 minute burst window. Hell i didn't even need a damage increase. I liked having 8 gcds in a row for pulling away from the boss, now NOTHING lines up, which is frustrating. Really hoping they do something about it. DV and Sheltron getting better (plus getting back bulwark) are not worth the entirely horrible new rotation I've been saddled with.

Having to drop Atonements due to a split between skill speed and spell speed was anything but intuitive, but I get where you're coming from :P