Who says PLD is not viable to Savage or any content don't know how a raid works.

A PLD does less damage than WAR and DRK, it's obvious. A good PLD does less damage but let healers do more damage in general. PLD has got more CD to mitigate damage. So one healer or both could do dps during more time.

Ninja is in the same pos than PLD. Their damage is less than MNK and DRG, but their utility with Trick attack, shadewalker and smoke bomb. A melee/ranged dps without TP can't do damage. A goad helps to bard/mch to don't play tp song or promotion skills.

If you don't meet dps requeriments, will you check others points than "oh we have a PLD-NIN-BRD".

If you think bard or MCH are broken, you are wrong, you should meet good players and not shitty DF/PF players unable to do a correctly rotation also with mistakes.