Quote Originally Posted by xRitzx View Post
Although jobs are usually for preferred over classes for group content, here's a situation I could maybe see gladiator being more beneficial than paladin. The gladiator has access to all of those skills plus several other cross-class skills. Gladiator could do drastically more burst DPS by using a skill combo such as Fight or Flight, Straight Shot, Raging Strikes, Internal Release, and Blood for Blood. Additional DPS skills are Mercy Stroke, Impulse Drive, Quelling Strikes, and Invigorate.
PLD gets mercy stroke. You're also losing almost an entire cooldown by popping FoF, Straight Shot, Raging, Internal Release and BfB at the same time. While it might be good burst, losing out on sword oath is HUGE if you are just wanting to DPS. Character limit sucks on these forums