Give PLD In-Combat Raise? (3.0?)

[Asierid]

PLD OT damage blows WAR out of the water and is hardly "little". Try 30-40 or so DPS over the course of a boss fight. Sword Oath does way more than people give it credit for, not to mention WAR gets TP starved pretty early if you're Fracturing (Which you should if you're DPSing). On the other hand, the MT damage is what is slight. WAR beats them by single digit percentages (And only because wrath abilities do not take reductions from the tank stance). We have better snap threat due to Zerk/Infuriate, and IB. That's it.

Ninja brings slashing now, and Path's 10%, while nice, isn't anything great when you're getting chunked for thousands of damage and shouldn't be that low to begin with.

I'll gladly give PLD SP for a HG lookalike to Holmgang. Least it gives them another rotation instead of 123.

So yes, give them a raise. Now they do more damage than WAR, AND have the utility of covering/rezzing people. Meanwhile, I make the boss not hit for 400-500 while a ninja replaces my slashing buff because they can't pay attention. Yes WAR has IB. That's the biggest selling point of the class along with Steel Cyclone, damage reduction on demand and a whirlwind. That's it.

As Ditto said:

(Incoming buttflustered pride Warriors who are too much of a brute to understand the reality of things, and funny enough are off tanks in their static)