Warriors - How to fix our damage mitigation

[Kitru]

I'd disagree that PLD has higher DPS than warrior if both are out of tank stance. Maim is good and PLD has no corollary.

Actually, PAL does have a corollary. In fact, it has 2: Circle of Scorn and Spirits Within. WAR Fracture provides 300 potency every 30 seconds (100 immediate + 10 tick of 20 potency). Circle of Scorn is on a 25 second CD and provides 250 potency. Spirits Within is on a 30 second CD and, as a DPS, should always be 300 potency. Both Circle of Scorn and Spirits Within are off GCD, so they can be used without hindering anything else.

Now, if you want me to do the math (whee!)...

It's pretty much the same numbers as the tank stance stuff with a couple changes: WAR no longer has a .75 modifier and PAL loses the .8 modifier. On top of that, PAL gets some bonus potency in the form of Sword Oath and Spirits Within is used at max hp (since DPS doesn't take it to the face). Baseline potency per GCD of an autoattack is 83.33 (auto-attack / ((damage * delay) / GCD)). Sword Oath provides an additional 50 potency to each of those, such that PAL auto-attack is 133.33 additional potency. Bring in the previous formulas modified for the given values (using the Fracture math for WARs):

WAR:
(213.85 * 1.0556 + 83.33 * 1.11) * 1.2 / .9 = 424.31

PAL:
(203.3 + 25 + 25 + 133.33) * 1.1 = 425.29

PAL (with WAR present):
(203.3 + 25 + 25 + 133.33) * 1.1 / .9 = 472.54

So a PAL does either 100.2% of what a WAR does or 111.37% while in their DPS set ups. PAL is explicitly better, but it's not by a massive amount when you get down to it.