Give PLD In-Combat Raise? (3.0?)

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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.

Proof? I've parsed a dummy many times with PLD vs WAR and I've never seen a discrepancy that big. It's always been close, even if you give PLD the slashing bonus. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I've never seen it.

not to mention WAR gets TP starved pretty early if you're Fracturing (Which you should if you're DPSing)

It's actually about pretty close even with fracturing because you regen some TP during berserk's pacification. Fracturing 3 times per berserk is about 20*3=60 more TP than not fracturing, and you regen about that much while waiting for pacification to drop. WAR can also use infuriate -> unchained which will allow them to build 5 stacks for an extra free TP move every 2 minutes. PLD doesn't get shield swipe so their TP drain is pretty high when OT.

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).

Having unchained completely nullify the penalty for 20s every 2 mins is a rather substantial gain. Also 300 unpenalized potency on IB is nothing to sneeze at.

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.

NIN can use a higher dps rotation if they don't need to keep up the slashing debuff, so it's still a large benefit to have the WAR in the party to keep it up.
Path is useful for mitigating all the magic raid damage that goes out in end game encounters. It actually is pretty great.