Quote Originally Posted by Ladon View Post
Paladins should be opening with the Goring Blade combo now and be trying to get two Gorings in with the opener FoF.
If your DPS are any good (tip: MNK has slow rampup and 900 DPS is quite poor for single target) you will never be safe with Goring for threat.

If you have an enmity multiplier on Shield Swipe, please share it. Otherwise, the math looks like this.

1. Delaying Goring with Shield Swipe is a potency loss. Goring ticks for 40 potency every 3s, averaging 33 potency per GCD(this decreases as GCD decreases). Doing Halone instead of Goring to open is a massive threat lead, at the cost of 100 potency.

2. Delaying Goring with Shield Swipe will not let you apply Goring a second time under FoF. Unless your GCD is 2.0s or less for 24+ seconds, you are not able to Shield Swipe at all, during FoF, AND apply Goring a second time, ESPECIALLY if you have FoF up for the Shield Lob.

Cont.