What's with Paladin?

[Rongway]

you also want to drop 1-2 Atonement to properly realign

Dropping Atonements was unnecessary even before the 6.4 changes. With the 6.4 changes Atonement no longer cancels combos, so you can safely hold one or two for FoF or to get better timing on your combo refresh.

[Jeeqbit]

Dropping Atonements was unnecessary even before the 6.4 changes. With the 6.4 changes Atonement no longer cancels combos, so you can safely hold one or two for FoF or to get better timing on your combo refresh.

The reason to drop them was so you could be ready to have Divine Might/Holy Spirit into Royal Authority into Divine Might/Holy Spirit.

This is still necessary if you want the highest potency in the burst and to start the burst immediately as Fight or Flight comes back. It's nice that they don't cancel the combo, but it doesn't change how Divine Mights don't stack up to 3 or 4, which is what would be needed to prevent someone having to be just beyond Riot Blade in their combo before a burst. 4 just so we account for skill speed builds that would allow for more in the burst window.

[Rongway]

Dropping Atonements was unnecessary even before the 6.4 changes. With the 6.4 changes Atonement no longer cancels combos, so you can safely hold one or two for FoF or to get better timing on your combo refresh.

The reason to drop them was so you could be ready to have Divine Might/Holy Spirit into Royal Authority into Divine Might/Holy Spirit.

This is still necessary

Dropping Atonements was unnecessary before and it's even worse now.

• hardcasting or dropping atonements to force 2hs FoF windows is significantly worse than the priority rotation now due to Atonement buffs and Atonement no longer breaking combo, allowing us to fix previously weak FoF windows
• In addition to holding HS procs for FoF windows where possible, you should now also attempt to hold Atonements for FoF when possible, taking care to spend any remaining stacks before pressing Royal Authority.