Quote Originally Posted by Xan_Kriegor View Post
No it isn't. Sigmascape Savage is the only thing that matters from those links you brought and there PLD has advantage over DRK in 3 out of 4 fights. It is not by a huge margin, both jobs have a similar dps and the numbers are fight dependent. But PLD is supposed to be the lowest dps tank by design and also because he has more utility tools than the other two. I think that both WAR and PLD are quite balanced right now. Each one brings different qualities to the table and they just feel good. There's no reason to not want both in your party. The problem right now is that DRK doesn't offer anything and besides that he has the worst dps or at least even with PLD. DRK is designed to be the mid term dps tank but he is not. And since he has less tools than WAR he actually should be on pair with him on dps or even better than that. You can also look for the amount of parses in each fight of Sigmascape Savage. In V3 DRK has 1/3 of the parses that PLD and WAR have, in V4 he has almost 1/4 of the other two.
It may be the case, because Paladin is often allowed to work as DPS that bring utility to the table, when for example DRK is being expected to tank the boss due to the TBN and how good it works on tank busters, of which Paladins doesnt have a good enough answer to.
Paladin benefit the most from the sword oath, not only having the penalty gone, but by the passive that deals additional 75 potency each AA, but it still is not good enough comparing to DRK.
DRK can be switching grit stance or not be in it for half of the time, however he still needs it for tanking the boss and it still affects his dps by for example cost mp that could be used on something else.

Why i do think its the case, because DRK is healed the most out of other 2 tanks, that could only mean one thing, am i right?
Will it be Delta or Sigma.
https://www.fflogs.com/statistics/21...metric=tankhps
https://www.fflogs.com/statistics/17...ps&class=Tanks

No matter the percentile, you could argue thats because drk has lower mitigation, but thats not explaining the huge disparity in heal amounts of each class. DRK is simply tanking the boss, when PLD does dmg in sword oath stance and supports the team with many abilities they have.

Still DRK dps > PLD, because how you would interpret the other duties in which DRK is higher than PLD?