Quote Originally Posted by Fyce View Post
Each time you use RH (would it be in your opener or anywhere in the fight), the only question you'd have to ask yourself is "why can't I do a RA instead?".
If the answer is:
a)because the WAR OT won't apply SP, so I need to keep RH debuff,
b)because the WAR OT's Butcher's block will generate too much enmity, so I need to generate more,
... then it's a potency loss for the group in either cases, not even accounting the fact that RH debuff is worse than SP.
Same line of thinking applies to "why can't I be in Sword oath right now?". If it's because of BB from the OT WAR, then it's a problem and a great loss for the group.


Of course, if it's not any of these very few and specific cases, then it's probably fine.
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Quote Originally Posted by Instrumentality View Post
This guy gets it.

Like in my raid I have a planned out set of enmity combos on a boss in each phase and know generally how much threat my healer(s) is going to generate. Any extra I have to use on Paladin OR Dark Knight is a straight damage loss. Warriors doing BB/SE for extended periods of time does more enmity than what I have planned and is a straight raid dps loss to correct for.

And yes I have cleared savage turns on both Paladin and Dark Knight.
Thank you for clarifying! It sounds like we are not far off on the RoH usage (with my present exception to a physical heavy fight – meaning I have some new things to work on)

I run into too many people that simply don’t have a high level of understanding about how PLD can be optimized. “Spam Flash, ?what is SwO?, etc etc. The unfortunate side effect is that I have found what I think is normal is nowhere close to many other peoples definition of normal.
There was an entire linkshell conversation that a friend of mine witnessed, where they said that there were no PLD’s that could push out over 1k as OT and couldn’t MT over 600 ( I think that second number is right, but may be wrong, I wasn’t in game.) Neither of these are true, I do them and honestly if I can manage level of play, so can anyone who puts forth effort. *** side note, my TP was floored at about 2:45- 2:50, dammit SE
Witnessing so many tanks that only feed into the negative stereotypes of each tank class (I’m a PLD I don’t do damage, I’m a WAR hur dur mah deeps, I’m a DRK but really I’m a former DPS – what is a cool down?) I simply don’t take the definition of normal for granted.

So my apologies Instrumentality, for my initial confusion about your statement.