so their is no point in playing some jobs?

[Jonnycbad]

Anyone who told you NIN and BRD are gimped at end game is an idiot.
PLD lacks magic damage reduction like DRK which SE stupidly designed almost all tank busters in Alex Savage around so PLD falls short in their CDs specifically against magic damage but yes DRK does have more dps even while in their tanking stance due to Darkside.

Why do people keep saying this? DRK has only 1 CD for magic. PLD's CDs work for physical and magical.

[RiceisNice]

Why do people keep saying this? DRK has only 1 CD for magic. PLD's CDs work for physical and magical.

DRK also has the same cooldowns as PLD (Rampart/Shadowskin, and Sentinel/Shadow Wall), on top of having Dork Arts + Dork Mind.

Paladin has a shield which...only mitigates physical damage part of the time, as well as two abilities (bulwark and sheltron) and they have less main tank damage in exchange for it. The result is that they're in content where their advantage (better physical mitigation) is not applicable, while the downfall they have for it (overall dps) is still present

All of these jobs are viable in any content in this game and the particular in regards to Pally is more towards dps being geared (and making the dps checks without the necessity for increased tank dps) than need to over gear the pally itself. All of these jobs are fine.

Even then, that is the difference to why the first A4S clears (where the biggest gate to clearing progression competitively is dps checks, not tank survivbility). And beyond that, a PLD has no advantages over DRK in something A3 or A4 (and especially a4) which is more or less the problem at hand. The only thing they'll accomplish is give your party a harder time because of how the fight or the paladin is designed (mostly the former). From a design standpoint, the former would be fine, but the later of my statement is just bad design/balancing.