PLD Cross Class Skills

[Viridiana]

Again, if you're off a target Fracture can then be used while you're trying to catch up/run back/whatever. Hence why I mentioned Demon Wall's Repel. I usually get Circle of Scorn as well Fracture on it a second or two before Repel finishes casting.

It doesn't work that way, though. Your GCD is worth either 220 potency (Fracture) or 230 potency (Riot Blade). Riot Blade would do more damage before you get knocked back than Fracture will do over the next 18 seconds. And that's sad, because Riot Blade isn't even part of PLD's actual DPS rotation.

Edit: After looking at it a different way, it seems that Fracture is more potency than the average of the RoH combo, unless I'm still screwing up my math somewhere. So I guess for dps considerations, it would actually be worth it. Nevermind my previous post (and the first half of this one). I will, say, though, that appealing to mechanics like repel shouldn't be done when discussing using DOT abilities over normal abilities. A DOT is either a dps increase or it isn't, regardless of uptime on the boss.