Quote Originally Posted by Jpec07 View Post
It works on trash and is a very effective way to reduce incoming damage. By Pacifying mobs, they can't do anything but white damage, which is substantially lower than if they could access their abilities.
Pacify is great, but the only things even remotely relevant that it works on are Ifrit hard and like goblin snipers in A2S (there's a couple others from ARR but I lost my list). It's like the dispel on One Ilm Punch. Everyone already curbstomps dungeon trash, so having an ability that pretty much just works on it (actually two, sup blind) is kinda lame. At least we get to stun some stuff in raids.
Also, while shield swipe is still a DPS gain (except under fight or flight I think because you won't get your last combo ender in) I think that it should just be a little more of a DPS gain. If you don't use it at all right now you lose out on like 3-4 potency per gcd. Fracture is pretty much the same except it costs more TP.