Quote Originally Posted by Gamemako View Post
Will get back to more of this later, but just wanted to point you're considering PLD versus WAR, which is entirely different than GLA vs. MRD. PLD gets two big DPS boosts in Sword Oath and Spirits Within plus a lower reduction on Shield Oath. For just GLA, though, your damage rate is 203.33 per GCD + CoS (10.0 potency per second) + autoattacks (about 100 potency per 3 seconds). For WAR, you get 213.85 per GCDs (SE/BB/SE/BB/F) + autoattacks + buffs that amount to a 33% boost. MRD also has higher STR than GLA, and ultimately produces about 25-30% higher DPS.
I'll concede this, but still think it's pretty irrelevant. Any worries about any class doing too much damage on its own to support a pet is easily solved by having the pet call debuff the player's damage. Since defiance and shield oath both already do this, clearly SE can manage such a buff.