Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
Yes you could use them sequentially but then you leave yourself open to animation lag so it's simply safer to use them together.
This is all fair, for sure, there's just never a situation where you should run into that problem, if you've been properly rotating cooldowns. At the *very least* you'll still have Foresight, Rampart's ugly little brother that nobody wants to talk to. Most times it'll be ramp > sen > ramp > hg > ramp > sen > ramp > ???????? (with Sheltron for each if they're physical) and it's really rare that you'll encounter a fight that throws that much shit at you to actually make all of your stuff be on cooldown, assuming you handle stuff properly. As a last ditch effort to save yourself from a mistake, yeah, but in general, you shouldn't be stacking Sheltron and Bulwark. Like... except in that very -very- rare circumstance you just lined up.

Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
That having been said, I don't think PLD needs defensive buffs. Its more or less fine where it is on mitigation if you ask me.
The 3-minute cooldown on Bulwark is definitely annoying as hell. It feels like a niche utility cooldown, but it's way too long to be used like that. You basically need to use it when you need/want a string of consistent blocks and almost have to work your cooldown rotation around it, because of how long its timer is.

Like in A1S, I would roll (since I didn't tank that fight in ShO, even for the buster) Awareness and 10-15s later Foresight after each buster to keep my incoming damage more consistent through the final runoff before the jump, since it's likely to die to that final cleave. I *WISH* I could have used Bulwark there, too, but it was a 2-minute spread, not 3-minute, so Bulwark could be used once, but not the second time. :\

redundant
rɪˈdʌnd(ə)nt/
adjective
not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous.
It's a matter of usage. You don't use "redundant" the same way you use "useless." Synonyms aren't always interchangeable. :0
The Redundant Department of Redundancies Department doesn't have nearly the same punny meaning as the Useless Department of Uselessness Department, for example.