Yoshi P talks about Warriors- from Producer Letter Live @ TGS

[Kitru]

By judging on different base class's skills from MRD and GLA i think WAR definitely have more DPS than a PLD.

And what exactly are you looking at? Maim? Berserk? Fracture? If that's all, you're ignoring a crapload.

Yes, early on, MAR is going to have higher damage than a GLA, but that's only because of Maim. As soon as you hit PLD, that advantage instantly vanishes: Sword Oath adds a *lot* of additional damage and Defiance applies a bigger damage penalty than Sword Oath. Furthermore, Fracture is a *tiny* increase in end DPS for a WAR while not really providing a real advantage in enmity generation. Berserk also happens to add only slightly more than half as much damage as Fight or Flight, thanks to the much shorter duration and Pacification effect. PLD also gets a lot of additional damage per GCD from Spirits Within and Circle of Scorn that just so happen to be off GCD: if they're used properly, they'll provide roughly 16% of total damage output. Ignoring those 2 is ignoring a *crapton* of damage output.

As I said before, WAR doesn't do more damage than a PLD. It's a myth propagated by people that don't know what they're talking about. You just proved that.