I think it'd be a shame to turn yet another gauge into an offensive only thing. WAR used to actually use Inner Beast/Raging Cyclone for defense back in ARR before the DPS stance kicked in and it's always a bit more fun to me to have a gauge that I don't have to just pool or avoid overcapping.

I think it would be a much better solution to just move the gauge away from autoattacks and have oath gauge gained by different skills (like when HS gave us 20 oath gauge back in SB), then it would normalize it and we could even slap some oath gauge generation onto clemency for downtime.

Not everything has to be DPS DPS DPS, imo. It would be nice to have less of our rotation relegated to filler though