People who ask for marks in DF

[silentwindfr]

only one setup allows to do full aoe

WAR+SCH+SMN+SMN, there yes you will go faster at kill in AoE

[Vmage]

only any setup allows to do full aoe

WAR/competent PLD+SCH/WHM that uses holy+SMN/literally any dd that can find their tab button+SMN/literally any dd that can find their tab button, there yes you will go faster at kill in AoE

fixed that for you

yes, war is absolutely easier to multi-tank with, and i don't doubt that 99%+ of the paladin population of this game can't figure out how to hold multiple mobs, but some of us can

yes, scholar dots are insane, so is shadow flare, but holy spam is pretty ridiculous DPS (not to mention it's an aoe stun - dropping the healing requirement from lots to zero

sure, summoner dots are also insane, but with a full party and everyone aoe'ing, you'll find that most trash packs are dead before dots have even ticked through half their duration (usually only happens when you have a whm aoe'ing with you, holy is usable outside of dark devices people!)

healing admittedly can be an issue on the bigger pulls (personally if I was a warrior I wouldn't try dropping 3 gargoyle packs at once like I would with a paladin - but that has nothing to do with overgearing and everything to do with paladin timers, specifically hallowed ground) but the quicker things die means less total healing, aoe'ing just requires the healer to use more cure2/adloquium and less cure1/physick - hps is important when trying to do things quickly, assuming your healer is aware of this those aoe pulls won't be an issue regardless of gear

[silentwindfr]

...snips...

the advantage of this setup is the WAR deal damage while generating hate on all target, the summoner AoE capacity (when used correctly is simply insane) have no downtime like the black mage when it get into ice umbral. more important, the hate is more easy at keep even on a summoner with full DL+Relic, because you don't have this phase of burst.

try this setup one time and you will see how insane a group of well geared will simply destroy the content.