PLD is a waste on anything other than Titan and Coil.

[Exstal]

I'm pretty sure the math has been done that Warrior, VIT stacked like tanks are supposed to be, do marginally better DPS than Paladin.

So by this logic, Warrior is unnecessary for anything because you can just use a Sword Oath STR PLD, who will take less damage than the Warrior anyway.

[Maelwys]

I'm pretty sure the math has been done that Warrior, VIT stacked like tanks are supposed to be, do marginally better DPS than Paladin.

This.

The comparisons I remember show Paladin DPS being much worse than WAR if they just cycle the Rage of Halone Combo. However once they start using off-GCD abilities (mainly Spirits Within and Circle of Scorn) and start using 'Fight or Flight' on cooldown then they become effectively on par with WAR when in both are in their Tanking stance and very slightly behind WAR when both are just DPSing. There's also a slight trade-off in TP to consider (IIRC both will slowly lose TP over time when spamming their optimal attack chains, but WAR will lose it slightly faster, meaning that PLD can keep up their damage for slightly longer before they have to start waiting a little between GCDs to rebuild TP)

With Infinite TP WAR can just spam overpower and AoE things to death. Depends what limits you put on the scenario.