Please consider giving PLD a way to generate Oath gauge outside of auto attacks.

[Saeno]

PLD oath generation is fine.

If you want oath for shelltron during Eden adds just save enough for 50 before the boss disappears.


As for not starting with oath gauge, it's not a big deal to not have shelltron during the first 20 seconds of a fight. You've got other tools to use if you really need them. Hell you could even PoA if there is a tank buster within the first 20 seconds and PoA would prob be up in time for you to use again when you need.

That is of course the obvious solution. Passage can indeed work as a single block if need be but this also means trading off your advantage of having two raid mitigators. In some cases, you may need that passage for other aoe damage which then eliminates the possibility of using PoA as a personal CD. Also, by removing a sheltron earlier to have a sheltron later, that means you're giving up mitigation somewhere. Im not entirely sure how I feel about that, but at the same time there is no guarantee to have short CD's available for all possible tank busters across all tanks where PLD can be the one tank that can have two shetrons just 10s in between due to its shorter recast. Still, that demands no sheltron use for 40-44 seconds in order to have that much gauge on standby.

All of these are things that are something you optimize during a fight of course. By allowing for the PLD to generate gauge slightly during downtime this does lessen the need to optimize gauge when first learning encounters or learning where to place mitigation since more is now available in the form of either sheltron, cover or intervention.