Is Paladin in a Bad Spot?

[Phoenicia]

Stuff.

I did mention Sword Oath is a flat additional 50 potency hit on top of each auto attack. This hit crits on its own and misses on its own. The Auto Attack can land a normal and the additional hit may miss or crit depending on your stats. That flat 50 potency adds roughly a 11~15% total DPS increase based on what weapon you're using. Tested and proven.

Sword Oath is so potent that PLD (with its lower average potency than WAR) did more DPS than WAR outside of Defiance throughout 2.x. WAR actually had to juggle Defiance to outDPS SwO PLD. The combination of WAR MT and PLD OT capitalized on SwO's damage output for a total raid-wide DPS increase.

All targets in this game have a set Defense and M. Defense stat of 0. Tested and proven. I do not have the formulas on hand but they're out there.

Last note: Please stop comparing Sword Oath with Darkside. You're not comparing apples to apples here. Darkside is DRK's equivalent of Maim/FoF and NOT a DPS stance. DRK has no DPS stance.