Quote Originally Posted by Daniolaut View Post
If flash dealt twice the enmity that it currently does then it would match up to war and wouldnt need to be spammed and would be an effective skill.
Flash generates roughly 480 ePot per use. Overpower is 600. Flash is basically free; Overpower costs an arm and a leg.

The enmity generation on Flash is fine. The only issue PLD has is low AoE damage.

A WAR doing just Butchers Block combo and a PLD doing just Rage of Halone combo, WAR generates more threat due to crit hits from wrath being at 5 stacks.
lolnope. I suggest you actually do some math (or, hell, even check against an equally geared PLD) before making bad conjecture that the entire community already knows is wrong.

5 stack Wrath is ~5% increased damage (slightly less actually), and Defiance is a 25% damage penalty, which ends up reducing damage to 78.75%. Berserk is 40% for 20 seconds every 90 seconds with 5 seconds of no special attack damage (basically -66%), which is only a ~5.17% increase in damage over time. The only off-GCD attack WAR has is Brutal Swing, for 100 pot every 20.

As such, just doing BB spam and using Berserk on CD, a WAR is going to manage 1345.84 ePot/GCD over time (2 * .75 * 1.05 * 1.0517 * (83.33 + (150 + 200 * 3 + 280 * 5) / 3 + 100 / 8))).

Shield Oath is a 20% reduction in damage dealt, FoF is 30% for 30 secs every 90 secs for a 10% increase to total damage, and CoS and SW are both off-GCDs that provide 25 pot/GCD.

As such, with RoH spam and FoF/SW/CoS on CD, a PLD will manage 1437.33 epot/GCD (2 * .8 * 1.1 * (83.33 + 25 + 25 + (150 + 200 * 3 + 260 * 5) / 3)).

The only way that a WAR generates more enmity than a PLD is if they use their CDs properly (optimal UBIR) and are using the SE>BB>BB high enmity rotation. In every other case, WAR is going to generate less.