I've noticed in these boards that many of you are having trouble holding aggro whilst maximizing your damage contribution to the party. So I've been crunching a few numbers on how best to optimize PLD's damage output with the toolkit we're given. The rotation is no longer oversimplified like it has been for the past few years so it's time to relearn the class from scratch. I'm going to start by saying that PLD is primarily a defense-oriented class, and as such, damage mitigation should be your number one priority, and damage output your second. Let's get started.