PLD AoE Idea: Light Burn

[MiniPrinny]

Because Vengeance is more iconic for Warrior so they gave it to Warrior.

As for the idea. It sounds cool in theory. But honestly I'd rather see Paladin have a physical AoE and not a magical one.

They gave the name to Warrior. The ability "Vengeance" in FFXIV is... not Vengeance, it's some weak counter-attack cooldown that lacks the incredible impact of Shock and Vengeance. Also, why would you want a physical AoE? Circle of Scorn, Flash, Rage of Halone, Royal Authority, all of these have magical elements. Meanwhile Clemancy and Divine Veil are outright holy healing magic. I'd say Paladin deserves some more blatant magic.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I like it OP, thumbs up. And Edit because Jpec said everything I was gonna say.

I'd rather see Flash extend the duration of the CoS DoT by 6/3 seconds, and spread the GB DoT to two additional enemies in the vicinity. If you couple that with a general enmity boost, and roll block before Crit, you'd solve a lot of PLD problems:

• Enmity - by boosting damage output as well as boosting enmity by itself, you'd see PLD suddenly able to compete with the other tanks for hate generation. They'd need to make this a level 51 talent, so as to not skew the balance of 2.0-2.5 content.
• DPS - spreading DoTs and extending CoS will automatically boost our damage output, especially against multiple enemies (which is where PLD's passive mitigation mechanics excel). It wouldn't put us on a level with DRK or WAR for ST MT DPS, but we'd be a good bit closer.
• TP Management - to maximize DPS, PLDs would need to be hitting Flash more frequently. If it's still on the GCD, then we will suddenly stop running out of TP, because we won't be spending as much of it, and would be interrupting our TP spending to spend MP on Flash, which would then allow 60 extra TP to regenerate.

[ArdorGrey]

one of my biggest complaints with pld is that every time you spend a gcd generating aoe aggro you are doing 0 dps. I'd love a minor dot effect, but I think the stacking mechanic would overly incentivize spamming.

another possibility that would achieve a similar solution in a way thats different from war and drk's flat potency aoes would be appending a vuln up or physical vuln up effect to flash itself or just to the blind status ailment.