PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

[Giantbane]

No. If base is 100% DPS then Darkside is 115% DPS. 20% of 115% is 23%. Grit is a 23% DPS loss, if you dropped Darkside too you would see a 35% DPS loss. Shield Oath is a rougher calculation. 20% reduced from base sure, but loss of +50 potency on autos ups that by about another 12~15%(estimate) for a total of about 35% DPS loss. You're very eager to ignore the multiplicative effects in this game. Stop that.

Exactly, you're basing that 23% off of some arbitrary collection of abilities like "use all your other stuff, but not darkside because ... ???" when there's no good reason you wouldn't use darkside in the vast majority of situations whether it's tanking or DPS or some combination of the two (tanking w/o grit). So it's a nonsensical stat that doesn't serve any purpose for comparison.

I mean, I might as well say:
Using all your oGCD attacks (C&S, dark passenger, plunge, low blow, reprisal) gives you 20% more DPS (no idea if this is correct). So you're really doing 1.15 * 1.2 = 138% by using your oGCD attacks and darkside. Now if you turn on Grit, that lowers your DPS to 1.38 * 0.8 = 110.4%, 1.38 - 1.104 = .276. So Grit REALLY reduces your damage by 27.6% of the damage you do by just standing around doing GCD attacks. But that doesn't tell you anything useful. It's a purely useless stat.