Paladin DPS!

[Atorimansea]

While im happy that Paladin is getting a few new combos to play with that doesn't make it 1/2/3... im curious as to what a PLD in Sword Oath will do in terms of DPS. Anouther thing to consider, with out that enimity on the combo some things will be differnt in certain fights. i can't recall which fight it is right now, but the add comes to the person second on the bosses list. will our dps keep us at the point or will we have to still do our Halone Combo to keep us there?

[HeavensSword]

If not there is always provoke.

[Atorimansea]

Yea, I'm just wondering if there is a fight like this in HW I'm not sure how hard the adds will hit. I have seen at the ilvl for the fight the healer getting hit pretty hard

[Sylve]

While im happy that Paladin is getting a few new combos to play with that doesn't make it 1/2/3... im curious as to what a PLD in Sword Oath will do in terms of DPS. Anouther thing to consider, with out that enimity on the combo some things will be differnt in certain fights. i can't recall which fight it is right now, but the add comes to the person second on the bosses list. will our dps keep us at the point or will we have to still do our Halone Combo to keep us there?

Nothing stopping a savvy PLD from swapping to Shield Oath to hit #2 then going Sword to DPS and bouncing between the 2 Oaths to maintain that position.

Hell, I'll be bouncing between Deliverance and Defiance as a Warrior even while Main Tanking during low damage periods or long casts.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Nothing stopping a savvy PLD from swapping to Shield Oath to hit #2 then going Sword to DPS and bouncing between the 2 Oaths to maintain that position.

Hell, I'll be bouncing between Deliverance and Defiance as a Warrior even while Main Tanking during low damage periods or long casts.

That might be less than viable considering that Shield Oath, Defiance and Grit all have 5% acc bonuses now to handle the difference between Front and flank/rear acc requirements.

[SirTaint]

Nothing stopping a savvy PLD from swapping to Shield Oath to hit #2 then going Sword to DPS and bouncing between the 2 Oaths to maintain that position.

Hell, I'll be bouncing between Deliverance and Defiance as a Warrior even while Main Tanking during low damage periods or long casts.

Stance dancing in PLD is much more cumbersome and complicated then WAR. Oaths are on GCD and break combos.

[HeavensSword]

Stance dancing in PLD is much more cumbersome and complicated then WAR. Oaths are on GCD and break combos.

They also eat a respectable amount of MP.

[Syfer22]

Stance dancing in PLD is much more cumbersome and complicated then WAR. Oaths are on GCD and break combos.

They also cost Mana. While you aren't using Flash while DPSing, it can be bad if you suddenly need to go full on tank mode and have no MP left. Otherwise you're primarily DPSing with Riot Blade (which may not be a bad idea with the additional abilities now) if you're stance-dancing a lot.

Edit: What HeavensSword said.

[Solduios]

PLD arnt meant to DPS play a war or drk

[rawker]

So by your reasoning, helaers shouldn't dps?

Devs gave PLDs offensive abilities with high pot and no enmity modifier. That sounds like dps abilities to me.