Thread: 3.1 PLD changes look good

Just a side note : for all those people in the thread talking about clipping Goring blade and filling the 10th GCD with Shield Swipe or Fracture... Don't do that. It's a DPS loss. It's certainly a DPS and TP loss to pad out the 10th GCD with Fracture, but it was a DPS loss to do it with the current Swipe too.

The average potency per GCD of Goring/Royal/Royal is 220 (200 for Goring Blade combo, 230 for Royal), plus the Goring Blade dot. It doesnt matter if you clip the DoT, Goring Blade's dot does a continues 40 potency every 3 seconds as long as there's no gaps in. You don't "lose ticks" by reapplying too early, you actually lose ticks by reapplying it late and having a gap where it isnt ticking.

If you put in a Shield Swipe you're effectively swapping out an 220 potency (average) GCD for a 210 one AND making a gap appear in the goring blade dot which reduces dps further. Same with Fracture - this is 220 potency but the DoT isnt boosted by Slashing Down.

TLDR: Goring/Royal/Royal with no other GCD filler, clipping your Goring Blade DoT, always does more DPS than inserting a Shield Swipe or Fracture. Stop it.