Thread: 3.1 PLD changes look good

Originally Posted by Shining_Tiger_Excalibur

EDIT: Actually, Square would benefit from making Shield Swipe a no TP, cone AoE, that's on a 15 second cooldown that requires an activation from receiving an attack.

It's called War Drum, and it existed in 1.x as a great way to gather enmity on multiple targets
In fact, it could stay on GCD and still cost TP, since its purpose wouldn't be to gain DPS on a single target, anymore.

Originally Posted by Shining_Tiger_Excalibur

Scratch that, I think what Square is changing it to is a somewhat right move. It's just too much to resist altering to be like my suggestion.

It's a right move if they intend Shield Swipe to be a DPS gain, like it was in 2.x when our most powerful combo was RoH...probably because it was the only one
Now, Shield Swipe could have a totally different purpose, and giving it a 15s cooldown would still result in crap AoE dmg.
The fact that it requires a block already make it worse than Overpower, so, it's not like we'll gain the upper hand on WAR or DRK, anyway.

Originally Posted by Reynhart

It's a right move if they intend Shield Swipe to be a DPS gain, like it was in 2.x when our most powerful combo was RoH...probably because it was the only one
Now, Shield Swipe could have a totally different purpose, and giving it a 15s cooldown would still result in crap AoE dmg.
The fact that it requires a block already make it worse than Overpower, so, it's not like we'll gain the upper hand on WAR or DRK, anyway.

Yeah, I vehemently hate how lazy Square was with this sideways movement on changing Shield Swipe. We're not even marginally better in raid DPS and are somewhat weaker in dungeons because of it now.