FFXIV Endwalker: Level 90 Paladin Guide Opener, Rotation, Stat Priority & Playstyle etc [Outdated]

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Paladin Guide, includes Opener, rotation, stat priority, gearing and playstyle.

0:00 Intro
1:14 Offensive Skills
3:40 Defensive Skills
5:44 Utility Skills
12:09 Opener & Rotation Breakdown
15:04 Dungeon Examples & Important Advice
17:37 Stats Priority & Gearing
18:55 Outro & Closing Thoughts

Welcome to the 2nd entry of my "how to" series, in this series we will be covering EVERY single job Final Fantasy 14 has to offer and I will be personally challenging myself to learn all the jobs to the highest level and provide guides for you guys during my journey. So join me on my journey and together we shall learn them all to the highest level!

The video may not be as short as my previous guides but I can assure you I nail most if not every point I could think of when playing a PLD, I've mained the tank role for 8+ years since the start of ARR and have had plenty of tanking experience so I really wanted to make sure this was RIGHT. If you have any feedback or need any help with these guides then please do leave them in the comments below and I would be happy to reply.

A lot of this is my own research but I couldn't of done it without the help of the resources provided in the Balance discord, so props to the brains over there.

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[AzuriteTV]

Something that got past my reviewing stages (I've been up all night so was easy to miss I guess) is I mention intervention is "20% for the first 10 seconds" at 6:15 no idea why I said this but I meant 20% for the first 4 seconds... on top of that its worth mentioning that the buff from rampart and sentinel do not stack for the intervention, so using both isn't going to make it 40%.

[Leo_]

Idk why but i never thought to pop hallowed ground early in a dungeon for big trash pulls but that just makes a lot of sense for better dps/ quicker clears. Especially since i usually just hold it and almost never use it.
I really appreciate how well you presented the damage rotations with both visuals and talking us through it. Plus your voice is clear and smooth, making it all easy to digest.
Solid work!

[caraelizabeth]

While I think I am too new to truly take advantage of this video, I appreciated how simple and calm the narration was and never felt overwhelmed. I very much appreciate that.

[TubeTAG]

Great stuff! I do have a couple of suggestions.

1) You mentioned that Clemency “benefits” from Req. You might want to note that it does *not* get an increase in the potency, especially since it *did* in previous expacs. Just the instant cast effect.

2) A couple of things regarding popping Divine Veil. You mentioned, correctly, that you can pop it with Holy Spirit. However the way you said it implied you needed to use a Req’d Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit heals you whether you’re in Req or not, so it’s not necessary to be in req. You may also want to mention that Holy Circle also pops it. In dungeon trash packs, it’s handy to use veil and pop it yourself if the DPS/healer eats an AoE. Almost all trash wipes I see are from the healer getting behind when they have to heal someone other than the tank, and tossing that heal/shield out can often provide the protection necessary to ensure the healer doesn’t need to split their attention.

3) You should definitely consider leading with the Req combo in big trash pulls. On six targets, as an example, the Req combo does *double* the potency per GCD as the FoF Total Eclipse/Prominence combo. A not inconsequential portion of that damage is the DoT that gets applied to all the targets by Blade of Valor. If you wait until FoF is done before using the Req combo, a lot of times the trash will be dead before that DoT gets applied (ie. 9th GCD vs 20th). This can definitely end up screwing up the timing of your buffs when it comes to the single target bosses, but delaying FoF so that you can realign it during the boss is definitely a net positive in over all potency if you get to make sure you’re potency on the trash mobs is optimized.

In addition, when dealing with dungeons and trash mobs, unReq’d HC spam is only 5 potency less per target, on average, to unbuffed TE/P and only ~40ish less that FoF’d TE/P. In exchange, you get a 400 potency heal, *every GCD.* This can be a pretty noticeable amount of extra healing. Swapping to unReq’d HC can definitely ease the burden on a healer who might be struggling for whatever reason. Or, if you’re coordinating with your healer in VoiceChat or something, it could let them continue to DPS while you take a much milder loss to DPS than them needing to cast a GCD heal.

All of this is optimization on casual content though, so that that with a grain of salt.

5) I’d recommend putting both Expiacion and Circle of Scorn on the same weave in the opener on single target, and just in general. Now that they’re both 30s CDs, you can just muscle memory them together. And if you’re doing the 61s rotation, as you’re suggesting, you’ll end up using them both at the same time in your rotation each time, which enhances the muscle memory nature of it. This helped me a bit, since the change in CoS’s CD screwed up some of my muscle memory and realigning them together made it easier for me to adjust.

[TheJamation]

Holy moly! Where have you been all these patches? This is one of the best guides+explanations I've had the pleasure to experience. Not only did you give the rotation (which is what I looked for when searching), but your explanations of the skills themselves were so clear that it actually helped me to understand why the rotation was the way it was. Most guides I've seen just say "do these skills in this order" so if I get a little out of sync with their steps I get lost on how to get back, but you've explained things so well I actually understand the importance of each combination. Thank you so much for this!

[bananafishbones]

Excellent guide! There is one minor correction though, and that is that Holy Circle is a DPS increase on as few as 2 targets rather than 3. Holy Circle is a total of 600 potency on 2 targets as opposed to 540 on Holy Spirit (unless I'm missing something.)

[LuminNox]

Really good guide. You showed the complexity of the job and explained it really well. The rotation sounds like a mess when there is downtime so it's great that you showed a way to recover it.

[lapougne]

+1 sub for the quality and usefulness of it. On and off since 1.0, never got the time not the energy to go seriously on this, now is the time. Glad I found this. Cheers

[dragonslaying_knight]

I haven’t even played enough of the game to even try all of these abilities (as I’m only level 22 as of writing this) but this guide was fun to watch. It makes me excited to play the class.

[severedwings]

I completely forgot about arm's length mitigation... Thank you for your time friend.

[stevenisrael]

Great video! Thank you for mentioning an optimal number for skill speed - it honestly helps.

[shaunefairley]

Wow I've never commented on a video thanking the creator but seriously thank you for this. I've been playing for about 3 months now and this was the video I needed that will help me elevate my game.

[immortalsteel]

As a player who is coming back after a little break. This was an awesome video! Thank you for making it <3

[austins.]

This is a wonderful guide, so well done thank you!

[kcmichaelm]

These continue to be just excellent guides for EW, really loving the style of content.

[ShiningOmega]

Very well made sir! This raid tier will be my first time doing Savage and I appreciate your help in equipping me to contribute to my static!

[stangboy]

Incredible video, easily the best guides I've found so far.

[pallmall]

Thanks, mate. The rotation is a little complicated but everything seems to be super useful and clearly presented. Thank you!

[johanzo]

Subscribed! Paladin main here and learnt new things.

[emerelle]

I really hate that Tenacity does not scale higher since it's for me the attribute who fits best into the Tank-Fantasy. And I always want to stack it so bad, but well... ^^