Quote Originally Posted by RyuuZero View Post
yeah that might be true, I use FoF to boost CoS and Spirits Within Expiacion because those are physical+ have the same Cool Down and funnily I used up all my MP in Shadowbringers, just so I could go back to the 1-2-3 Combo and build MP until Req is back. Now I play PLD like this: have MP? Req+ HolySpam into Confiteor into Blades, out of MP? FoF+CoS+Expiacion+Goring Combo into 1-2-3 Combo into AtonementSpam and another Goring Combo to have a DoT while I do the Req Combo. Which works for me on Paper but in practice I still end up having MP after Blades, so I continue Spamming Holy Spirit, looking like a Caster (but Blue Mage can't be a Tank.. huh..) until I have no MP anymore.. the upcomming Problem for me is at that Point my Req is Back but I have no MP so I do the FoF Stuff while Req sits ready to use ._. it's just nitpicking from my side though it's all good, but true I had an easier time with the PLD rotation in Shadowbringers, funnily.
Because you don't continue using MP until you run out. They made PLD's magic combo cost less MP so that you can still Clemency after using it.

The combo is exactly the same as ShB with the exception of, after Confeiteor, you use Blade of Faith, Blade of Truth then Blade of Valor instead of Fast Blade, Riot Blade, Goring Blade. Do this and you find the rotation flows smoothly, with everything lining up. The only reason the blade combo has MP restoration is to make up for it replacing a Riot Blade, which would restore MP.

Even if you want to go off of potency, a Royal Authority + 3 Atonement is more potency per GCD than an unbuffed Holy Spirit cast. Even if you only use 2 Atonements to account for drift, it is still stronger per GCD than Holy Spirit. The only time Holy Spirit is stronger is when it is under Requiescat, which disappears once you use Confiteor, irregardless of how many stacks it has left.

Just because you didn't understand how things are meant to fit together in the rotation, doesn't then qualify that thing as being bad. Maybe, just maybe, learn how a job is supposed to function before you start blaming it for not making sense. PLD does have it's issues, however (in a vacuum) the rotation flow is not one of them.