Quote Originally Posted by Tila View Post
People fail to realize that not all tanks are the same, and that balance should not be based around the top 1% meta. Balancing around the tip top is a bad move since they will always pick whats best, and there will always be a best. Always.
If balance for PLD is supposed to be they are more defensive and that's why they have lower DPS, that's one thing. However, if PLD is only more defensive against physical damage (not magical) and then SE makes most of the threatening moves in a raid magical, then the PLD loses his intended advantage while keeping his weakness.

It would be similar if all of the raid content had heavy physical busters and didn't have stringent DPS checks, or didn't have stringent DPS checks that the MT could participate in for some reason. DRK would be all weakness, no strength in these situations.