Is PLD actually weaker than before?

[Absurdity]

Hallowed ground is a very long cooldown for what amounts to precious little gain over superbolide or even the other invulns (has actual invulnerability been of benefit since cursekeeper?)

Last time was in P2S (allowing you full uptime during phase 4 Predatory Avarice + Dissociation + Spoken / Winged Cataract) and could be used to negate most of Heartstake's damage in P4S phase 2.
No idea if there are cases like that in this tier but Holmgang and Living Dead are absolutely weaker on the DoT busters.

[fulminating]

You still have to mitigate the dot busters or you get slapped with a 7 figure damage tick after hallowed/bolide wears off. I considered mentioning heart stake, but that was a similar situation. That said, I think e10s may have had the damage down debuff attached to actually taking damage, so that's another place unless I'm misremembering there.

[Cabalabob]

Just a thought, if they made sword oath stack up to 6 times (3 per royal authority) and made atonement not break combos, then we could prime HS and RA and then spam atonement until FoF is ready and if we had any excess stacks they wouldn’t be lost when we used RA, they’d just carry over until after our burst.

[Cabalabob]

With the potency tweaks and atonement not breaking combos in the latest patch the rotation feels a lot smoother now. Being able to prime RA and DM and spam atonement until FoF comes off CD feels a lot better.

But I still think making atonement stack up to 6 would be helpful. I find myself priming the double DM Holy Spirit combo every time now, but this often leads to excess stacks of atonement being lost to using RA (Which is now even more impactful to our dps outside of the burst window because of the atonement potency buff).

I realise that the potency difference between DM Holy Spirit and atonement now is so minimal that it’s probably just as effective if not more so to just use the excess atonement during FoF but double DM Holy Spirit just feels so natural to me and I don’t see any huge repercussions to being able to store some extra atonement stacks.

[FudoMyoo]

who gives a shit, i just love paladin.