Quote Originally Posted by Sleigh View Post
You'll also get some people who do well who DGAF to post their numbers. I guarantee that is not the creme de la creme of PLD DPS.
The thing about paladin dps though is it's incredibly -easy-. DRK and WAR actually have quite a bit of thought in their dps rotation - managing when to fell cleave within berserk windows, the mana/wrath management, so many different options for Dark Arts, multiple DPS cooldowns on Warrior....

... on Paladin you literally sit in Sword Oath as much as possible and just go Goring/Royal/Royal, keeping FoF, Circle and Spirits on cooldown, with a teeny bit of optimisation on the first FoF to ensure you get two Gorings and two Circle out of it. That's it.

Whilst I don't disagree with your point, Paladin DPS is very very easy to optimise in terms of the mechanical play of the Paladin. The tricky part is in actually having windows in which you can DO that rotation. The fact that we've seen no paladins approaching the values of WAR and DRK just shows more that it's very difficult to find the windows in a fight that allow that, more than saying the paladins on the leaderboard need to git gud.

It's why most Paladins arent actually crying for a Potency Increase, we're just wanting threat/quality of life boosts that let us sit in our DPS stance and actually do our dps rotation without losing huge amounts of DPS every time we need to worry about hate.