Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
The only thing PLD and the other tanks share in terms of DPS is the bonus of their DPS stance.
PLD: Sword Oath autos
DRK: Blood Weapon (+10% attack speed, more MP and thus more 400 pot DA Souleaters)
WAR: 5% Deliverance, Fell Cleave

Even here PLD is underwhelming. Whereas WAR and DRK share many of the same elements to their DPS toolkit across their stances, and those elements follow similar patterns, PLD's feels utterly incomplete in comparison.
Because SE nerfed Det to the ground. Before, a PLD with high enough Det were doing very good numbers.