PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

[Donjo]

... 2. Alexander Savage is mostly magical damage and while PLD's toolkit is fine for it, DRK's toolkit is better. ...

No, it really isn't. Granted, it does have instances of magical tank busters(Akh Morn being the only one that previously existed), but almost everything aside from those that directly target the Tanks(or is intended to be redirected toward Tanks somehow) is physical... Except for A4, but even A4 has physical attacks hitting a Tank in quarantine so it still isn't as egregious as Ultima HM or Ramuh.

EDIT: WAR loses IB and in a magical environment they go down to having only Vengeance as a "good CD" and ToB+Convalescence which is far worse than Rampart in both effectiveness and CD/uptime.

Thril + Conva is fine if they're both combined and is not far worse than Rampart in either count. Regarding Duration, as long as the meta discourages the use of defensive cooldowns outside of specific burst damage scenarios, then the total uptime of a specific buff if it is kept perpetually on cooldown will be largely irrelevant. As long as both are around when they're needed(and they certainly are), they're fine. Besides, we're comparing 22.22% uptime to 16.67% uptime if we do want to consider the perpetually on cooldown angle. Worse, to be sure, but not by a crippling amount by any means. Regarding effectiveness, it is definitely a detriment that both of them must be up at the same time to give a similar effect to what pressing a single button can do in most other cases. However, that combination is equivalent to reducing incoming damage by 16.67% which is a more favorable comparison than uptime.

TL;DR: Ya'll are exaggerating too much.