Thread: PLD 4.0

Originally Posted by Reynhart

Would be nice if [Shield Swipe] was kept on GCD but made a conal AoE...(With reduced potency, of course)

Could even go half and half, so it's still usable filler.

Shield Swipe - Weaponskill - Delivers and attack with a potency of 115 in a cone to all enemies before you. Damage doubled against the main target. Additional Effect: Increased enmity.
(Total potency done to main target: 230. Now even with the average potency of a Royal Authority combo). Costs 50 TP, up from 40.

[RA does 3.6 potency per TP. This would now do 4.6, down just slightly from 5.3 as per 210 potency for 40 TP.]

Edit: To be honest Shield Swipe might not even need RA-combo-average potency, as long as you are able to do more Royal Authority combos as a result of using Swipe, such that it has at least faintly greater overall contribution than RA-combo-average.

220 potency feels like the minimum though, given how much we all hate to lose dps, especially if RoH were eventually buffed.I realize this is literally agonizing over 10 potency in design, but it would otherwise be agonizing over 10 potency in practice.
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All this shield swipe talk makes me want actual differences between the shield types in regards to Swipe and possibly even Bash, though...