Should Dark Knight get a Rework?

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"Paladin rotation will change drastically"
"Paladin mains take note"
"Won't go over it now"

Yes, as a Paladin I'm living in fear. That's such an awful thing to say to Paladin mains. "Your class will change drastically. Very possibly in a really bad way. And we're not going to say how." So I might or might not have to switch job in 6.3 while I'm in the middle of raiding.

Everyone's expectations for what will change are probably wrong and here is why. They have to consider lower level gameplay. If they didn't have to consider that, it would have been changed already. Remember that the burst at lower levels is Fight or Flight, while at higher levels it's all split between Fight or Flight and Requiescat. If they buff the Fight or Flight potency, it could make the lower level potency too high. So they buffed the Requiescat phase instead because we only get access to that at higher levels.

The problem of course, is that Requiescat happens every minute, not every 2 minutes. But if Requiescat is changed to happen every 2 minutes, it takes the rotation back to Heavensward where most of the time you just do Goring Blade and Royal Authority spam most of the time, with the only difference being Atonements.

Changing the Requiescat timing could also affect the damage output at lower levels that weren't designed for a 2 minute burst, but if they buff the melee attacks to compensate then it could overpower them at even lower levels. So we should all remember just how much thought SE has to put into it that we are not.

This is why they need to rework it instead of just making a minor adjustment. For example, they could try to maintain the rotation as it is but just add an additional buff that increases damage every 2 minutes, but that still means designing the new ability, the icon, the animation and everything else. I think that this extra ability would be clunky when we are already pressing Fight or Flight or Requiescat. So it all needs a lot of thought and that is obviously what they are taking the time to do.

But without any information on what they are thinking of changing, it certainly leaves a lot of us in fear as Paladins.