My input on DRK changes

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Paladins have really nice damage now. They out parse DRK, so I am not sure what this is about. By your logic, DRK should have more defenses then Paladin atm. Otherwise they are taking the cake and eating it too.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Goring_Blade
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Royal_Authority

With these two skills, Paladins destroy us on damage. Yes, we can get dark arts to increase our potency to 400, sure. However the issue is there is no way to sustain that. You can maybe do it twice, and then run out of MP and darkside goes away. Meanwhile, the Paladin can keep going up and RA, GBing the enemy. They have higher DPS.

Don't believe me? Go into Shield Oath and parse it. Although I would like to see people with the same stats. I trust the paladin will have 100-150 dps over DRK over a sustained period.

What DRK does have, is higher burst DPS. However after 50 seconds that goes down. Most boss fights last longer then 50 seconds.

[Faytte]

Paladins have really nice damage now. They out parse DRK, so I am not sure what this is about. By your logic, DRK should have more defenses then Paladin atm. Otherwise they are taking the cake and eating it too.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Goring_Blade
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Royal_Authority

With these two skills, Paladins destroy us on damage. Yes, we can get dark arts to increase our potency to 400, sure. However the issue is there is no way to sustain that. You can maybe do it twice, and then run out of MP and darkside goes away. Meanwhile, the Paladin can keep going up and RA, GBing the enemy. They have higher DPS.

Don't believe me? Go into Shield Oath and parse it. Although I would like to see people with the same stats. I trust the paladin will have 100-150 dps over DRK over a sustained period.

What DRK does have, is higher burst DPS. However after 50 seconds that goes down. Most boss fights last longer then 50 seconds.

Goring Blade does 40 more potency than Scourge.
Royal Authority has 40 more potency than Power Slash, and 60 less than DA + Soul Eater.

Paladins have 1100 potency on off GCD per minute. A DRK is well over 2K, without counting low blow resets while main tanking. I don't know how you think paladins are out dpsing dark--I would love to see the parses you are talking about.