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[eagledorf]

I'm pretty sure White Mages do more damage than Paladins do. There's a lot of wiggle room somewhere between White Mage DPS and Black Mage / Bard DPS, and Paladin DPS ought to fall somewhere between the two.

A PLD in Sword Oath can put out reasonable DPS for a long time (you do get TP starved, but it takes time). A WAR outside of Defiance can do approximately the same. PLD and WAR also get DPS boosting cooldowns (FoF, Berserk, Inner Release).

A WHM can either Holy spam and run out of MP fast doing sort of good DPS, or they can use Stone II/AeroII/FA and be a pretty mediocre DPS. A SCH can do quite well sustaining DPS, but without cooldowns and the pet, their DPS is also going to be quite sub-par compared to SMN.

You really have to remember much of a PLD's DPS is auto-attacks and some off-GCD abilities while a WHM is literally only hitting when they get a spell off.