PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

[OPneedNerfs]

Well yes, but then you can also say, I am a gamer I should have all three tanks equally geared and swap between encounters as to what is needed. In a perfect world yes that would be great. But not all players are like that.

Also add in the fact that you can't be equally geared on different classes due to 1 simple reason. Weapons.

Even if the latest tank gear is shared unlike the current eso ones are, weapons are still unique to each different class.

If there were no tome caps for the 2nd highest tier of gear, this wouldn't be an issue at all but that's obviously not going to happen until said gear is outdated anyway.

And so the cycle continues...

Maybe just maybe having a third tank class was the problem, should have maybe have been WAR is physical DPS Tank and PLD was a magic based tank. WAR could still do the same with the slash buff, but PLD would do something similar with magic buffs etc.

The issue with the current tank situation is this:

You can't replace the spot of WAR in a 8 man party without losing significant utility and DPS.

If they had made it so that having a combination of ANY 2 of the 3 tank classes was optimal at the highest level of play, then we wouldn't have this problem.

Some people seem to be thinking it's fine but as I've said before elsewhere, this is an MMORPG where you spend time and effort to gear up a certain class. You can never predict what the devs are going to do to buff/nerf the class you're playing but it is expected that the class you are spending time and effort for will be able to be used as optimally as someone who spent an equal amount of time and effort to gear up another class.

Imagine if the next patch the devs suddenly decide to nerf WARs to the ground and make PLDs OP. Now we would reverse the situation and have PLDs gloat at WARs telling them to "Git Gud" or that "There are multiple tank classes, I heard PLD is good". Would that make the current WAR players who have invested their time/effort into WAR happy? Unless you're a masochist, I highly doubt so. So why is it that people are saying it's fine for PLDs and to a lesser extent DRKs to be performing less than optimal?