Remove/adjust Goring Blade.

[Kemeko]

Hmm, that's just...hmm...that left me speechless for a bit. I couldn't take what you said seriously.

The meme of the child wanting Gnb, when the mom says we have Gnb at home came to mind.

Back to the discussion. Oh, that Atonement first block was a typo on the 90 box, I'll fix that right now. It was a valid block though, if you had 3 Sword Oath beforehand. That was just me quickly copy and pasting things. Surprised it was just that. Asking how the game knows how Atonement interacts with Sword Oath is like asking how the game knows how Fast Blade interacts with Sword Oath, or just Fast Blade in general into Riot Blade. Sword Oath and Combo Sword Oath are two different keywords and are purposely not included within the same tooltip, because it would be redundant. A simpler example would be, Fast Blade, which if used by itself is not a combo, nor does it have Combo Action in it's tooltip. Or are you asking for a special tagline "Sword Oath is not consumed with Combo Action.", applying to the Atonement tooltip, which I don't mind putting it in. Definitely the next step when adding new keywords, so I'll update them now. You made no mention of Atonement giving 3 Sword Oath til now. You were focusing mostly on trying to find a clean loop that you would never get in this design ever, because it's purposely designed that way, which you never liked. Look at Warrior Storm's Path and Storm's Eye for example, they do the same damage so you do them for effects.

I don't know how you ever arrived at:
Fast > Riot > Royal (+3 SO and DM)
Fast > Riot > Atonement (+2 SO)

You are not running on old information, it has never changed since the beginning when you were comparing [Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Royal Authority] vs [Fast Blade][Riot Blade][Atonement] block examples.
Fast > Riot > Royal (+3 SO and + 1 DM)
Fast > Riot > Atonement (+2 SO and +2 DM)

6.3 PLD damage as a %:
-FoF/Requiescat 8/25 GCDs 54%
-Unbuffed 17/25 GCDs 46%

Looks to me like Pld is doing too much in a single burst. It's not balanced. There was a post somewhere how a healthy burst should be no more than 40%. If that is taken into consideration, (54% - 40% = 14% ~ 1700 Excess Potency in Burst), which would require removing both Goring Blade and Fight or Flight away from Requiescat burst. Nothing much I can really say about your position on buffs and filler in general beyond what was posted. Pld is a 1 min job, not a 2 min job. If you like Gnb, go play Gnb. Each job design should have it's own signature, and people pick what they like.