All I'm going to say is PLD is straight up boring to play. Give me a giant sword and fun spell effects with some thematic flavor that contrasts with the Warrior of Light archetype.

Otherwise, only times I generally don't try to force out DPS is if I'm new to an encounter and want to properly tank it so we don't all wipe because I wasn't aware of how hard something was going to hit me in the face.

But I don't do Savage and the like. It doesn't interest me that much.