Is PLD actually weaker than before?

[Cabalabob]

they basically just expect you to think for yourself and figure out that you can go into FoF with Holy Spirit and your combo on Royal, do your Confiteor combo and have 3 GCDs left to do HS -> RA -> HS under FoF.

But that’s the point. To go into your burst with DM and RA primed you need to drop atonements for it to align with FoF so you need to be 2 GCDs ahead to make sure you’re ready when FoF comes off CD.

If you just start FoF whenever it’s ready without any setup then you won’t have RA primed and you’ll end up wasting GCDs on fast blade and riot blade and won’t have enough GCDs in FoF to use RA and a second DM HS.