Quote Originally Posted by Zairava View Post
Holy Spirit/Circle has been providing sustain since expansion launch, and the Confiteor combo has been as well since 6.1, and in both old and new PLD were timed incredibly consistently at around the same points in each rotation respectively. That isn't even counting the regen from Holy Sheltron since we are strictly mentioning rotational sustain. The problem was not with the sustain, PLD fell behind defensively, which is what was remedied in the rework when they Brought bulwark back and made [Holy]Sheltron give a flat damage reduction instead of blocking.
Let me clarify:

Old PLD's self-healing was crunched together in the form of 4x Holy Spirits under Requiescat once per Requiescat CD.

There was no consistent healing during the rest of your rotation; Royal, Goring, and Atonement combos didn't have healing components in them. Contrast WAR (Storm's Path), DRK (Souleater), and GNB (Brutal Shell). Old PLD would have to go through 7 three hit combos (Goring, Royal, Atonement, Goring, Royal, Atonement, Goring), dropping an Atonement somewhere in there, THEN use Requiescat before it got to its rotation self-sustain. And it was all in one big burst of 4x Holy Spirits at once.

You could, of course, break you rotation at any time to cast Clemency...but that was a DPS loss (especially when it actually BROKE your combos to do so), while the other three Tanks had their sustain baked into their core single target rotations.

That's what "consistent self-sustain" meant. As in "consistent across its rotation".