Quote Originally Posted by SpookyGhost View Post
Gonna be honest, if your raid is hurting for DPS at this point in the game in A3S then it's not a job choice issue. If you switch to DRK/WAR now, that DPS issue will persist in A4S and there won't be any job changing work-arounds. It's better for your group to improve than try and squirt Elmer's glue all over the problem. DRK MT/PLD OT is the best choice for that composition, you'll get higher DPS and DRK won't have any trouble holding aggro. It'll also free up your CDs quite a bit for hand phase, add phase, and the final phase.
It is partly a job choice issue though. We have basically the worst possible raid composition for A3S right now - PLD/DRK, WHM/AST, and no NIN. We're completely missing out on the slashing debuff along with trying to figure out how to handle healer DPS. If the AST does it, the DPS seems negligible. If the WHM does it, the DPS is better but people die. Mind you, we've only been in there a week now (technically two but our scholar suddenly quit last week so we've been trying to replace) but we're running into the same wall over and over again. I know we'll get better at the fight as we practice the mechanics more, but right now I honestly just kind of feel like dead weight any time low DPS numbers are brought up and that's a terrible feeling to have.

Dunno, I'm going to level WAR either way, and we're going to try the DRK as MT this next week and see how things go.