tanks do wayy too much damage for their tankiness

[ErzaScarlet77]

why play single damage dps like lancer if pld/war can do pretty much same amount of dmg, maybe lil lower but offfer wayy much more beef and get 2 blm for the dps and aoe?

[CUTS3R]

Err what ?

[DMooseJ]

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about with Paladins, with Wars I feel about the same. How do you even know they're doing more damage than you?

I've got a Dragoon as well but if you have a solid rotation I feel like I'm putting out waaaay more damage than my warrior does so long as you're flanking and disemboweling correctly. If you feel like the Warriors are out damaging you, I can only be led to believe you have a bad rotation.

[Tiggy]

Warriors and Paladins do not do "maybe lil lower" damage. They do roughly half the DPS in most fights that a true DPS does. Even if I geared fully for damage I wouldn't be able to touch a job that is designed for damage. Their skills are far better for it than a warrior or paladins skills. Combined with the fact that strength ring drops aren't readily lootable by tanks making the gear required annoying to get.

[Odd]

I mean no offense, but you're either a bad dps, or you only play with bad dps. In my experience tanks never come close, and are always last in dps (not including healers).

Now, a warrior off tank can put up some respectable numbers, but that's when they're focusing on dps, not tanking. If they use their tanking skill (Defiance?), their dps goes way down.

[Nero]

why play single damage dps like lancer if pld/war can do pretty much same amount of dmg, maybe lil lower but offfer wayy much more beef and get 2 blm for the dps and aoe?

O_o.............? If i ever see a tank doing more than me i will /wrist

[Seifu]

Warriors and Paladins do not do "maybe lil lower" damage. They do roughly half the DPS in most fights that a true DPS does. Even if I geared fully for damage I wouldn't be able to touch a job that is designed for damage. Their skills are far better for it than a warrior or paladins skills. Combined with the fact that strength ring drops aren't readily lootable by tanks making the gear required annoying to get.

On a dummy I'll get 220DPS in Sword Oath(400STR) and 250DPS out of Defiance (437STR).

[Tiggy]

On a dummy I'll get 220DPS in Sword Oath(400STR) and 250DPS out of Defiance (437STR).

and? I'm assuming there was some purpose to posting numbers that you'd never actually see in a real battle. Also those numbers are considerably lower than a real DPS would put out in the same situation.

[Crimson-Falcon]

On a dummy I'll get 220DPS in Sword Oath(400STR) and 250DPS out of Defiance (437STR).

can you tell me how you do it?

250 DPS as WAR yea no doubt

but 220 as PLD?

im on 370 STR with sword oath & im nowhere near 150 DPS

[Noshpan]

I don't even... Those are either some terrible tanks are some terrible damage dealers.