Give us back the old Paladin

[Riion]

From The Balance Discord, you can use whatever you want in the buff window (assuming you still use Goring Blade and the Confiteor combo) and it is practically a 0 DPS loss over the 1 minute loop (dropping Atonements) or the 2 minute loop (hard casting Holy Spirits). So, if you really want to, you can use all of your Atonements without worry.

I've seen it, and I'm skeptical of that. Filling those 3 'free' GCDs with anything other than a buffed Holy Spirit -> Royal Authority -> Buffed Holy Spirit is going to lead to an overall dps loss. So to ensure that you get that in a 60 sec loop, you need to drop two Atonments, given a 2.5 gcd.

Edit: Though as I think about it more, perhaps not dropping those two Atonments may help to smooth things out since dropping Atonments in and of itself is a dps loss. Something to consider.