PLD changes

[nia_saeli]

In short. It's fine, but it's not for me. It feels more like it should be call Shieldbeaker, rather than PLD, tbh. I'm not particularly optimistic that they are going to fix the issues because it's kind of obvious that no one on their team plays PLD consistently.

The truly baffling thing is that they managed to make it _stricter_ than it was previously. Yeah, dropping atonements to realign periodically always kinda felt a bit jank, but now we are back to dropping atonements or hardcasting. And we can't even just go into the FoF burst, we have to do a 3 GCD lead up (or a 5 GCD lead up if you want to do double Divine Might Holy Spirit).

Granted, if you aren't upset about losing some DPS, you can pretty much put a Holy spirit anywhere in rotation and it's a minimal loss. But I'm still baffled that the PLD rework ended up with us doing SB era hardcasted Holy Spirit as a regular part of our rotation.

I think it's absolutely playable, and I'm curious where it sits in the meta (hopefully on the top by a country mile or two), but I feel that all of my cynicism leading up to 6.3 was 100% justified.

As a slight follow-up, I also think that they did a disservice to PLD by basically copy-pasting GNB's single target burst rotation into PLD

- FoF is No Mercy
- Req is like bloodfest on a 60s CD
- Goring Blade is Double Down
- Spirits Within/Circle of scorn is Blasting Zone/Bow Shock
- Divine Might is a cartridge that must be spent on HolySpirit (Burst Strike).

I will grant that they had the decency to not make us WARv3, but when making us GNB v2 it would have been nice to be able to have divine might actually behave like cartridges instead of making us do the lead-in jank that comes with burst. The previous iteration was totally fine to just yolo unless you were trying to optimize on a fight by fight basis with spreadsheets. Now it feels super off when trying to do anything past the first FoF.

Honestly, the more I play with it, the less I understand how it made it out of testing. I kind of feel like YoshiP didn't give us any details because he didn't understand how to play it either. I was expecting to be disappointed, but I did not expect to be _this_ disappointed.