Quote Originally Posted by Kemeko View Post
For me, it'd go along these lines with the changes for Goring Blade in full effect:

[Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Royal Authority][Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Atonement][Shield Bash][Goring Blade]
[Holy Spirit][Holy Spirit][Holy Spirit][Holy Spirit][Confiteor][Blade of Faith][Blade of Truth][Blade of Valor]
[Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Royal Authority][Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Atonement][Shield Bash][Goring Blade]

With Requiescat and Divine Might stacking, using Holy Spirit or Confiteor combo first under Requiescat should be the same potencies ideally. Requiescat is treated as a burst itself, not the Confiteor combo specifically. Confiteor combo would be an aoe burst if used within Requiescat.
So, you want to, again, split the FoF window and Requiescat window? And, by so doing, bring PLD back to what it was before the rework. Genius /s.

Your whole burst phase (which I will assume the magic phase is still the higher damage part) is now out of the raid buffs, which was an issue before, you have delayed Goring Blade, a damage buff, until 8 GCDs in, or 20 seconds into the fight, losing 15% damage for those 20 seconds, because, no reason? You also gave Goring Blade the ability to get more damage off of Sword Oath stacks, however, you would never get that chance in the rotation as they would always be used up before then, not that it would matter as boosting the weaker Fast/Riot/Shield Bash (I am assuming it will be stronger for the combo) would be a bigger gain than using it on Goring Blade anyway.

A common complaint about current PLD is the filler, however, your filler is not exactly exciting either. Most of it is the same combo, Fast > Riot > Royal but the second time, you change Royal with Atonement for some arbitrary reason, I don't know, just to 'change it up'? It just seems weird and out of place, obviously, people might disagree there.

I can tell no real thought has been put into this in regards to fitting it into the current game paradigm and the only thought is in regards to making a clean 24 GCD rotation.

If you really wanted old PLD back, the easiest thing to do would be to design PLD around the 2.5 second GCD, Royal only gives 2 Sword Oaths. That would make a total of 24 GCDs nd you wouldn't have to deal with all these weird interactions that you propose for no reason/just to make something fit. However, we know the old PLD just doesn't fit, so there is no reason to try and continue to shoehorn it back in.