Quote Originally Posted by Snowaeth View Post
Warrior can literally outdps bard right now.
Why don't we see Warriors being stacked yet with your logic?
This was answered in the Live Letter a couple of days ago.

Q4. Even though they’re a tank, warriors can deal a lot of damage, will paladin and dark knight be able to deal a similar amount of damage?

A4. The reason warriors DPS is high is because they have a debuff where they can decrease a target’s slashing resistance.

As an off tank, dark knights can also utilize the benefits from this debuff’s effect and that will also allow them to output similar amounts of damage. Paladins are specialized in defense so their damage output is a little bit lower.

As for how warriors can output more DPS while main tanking, paladins have strong physical damage reduction and powerful actions like Hallowed Ground, dark knights have a strong magical damage reduction in Dark Mind, so these are the differences from the job designs.
If resistance is being brought into this, quite possibly, with a Bard and Dragoon pairing, the Bard would do more damage, no? o: