PLD highest DPS tank single target

[Seku]

How does that kill anything? Yes DRK has an evasion combo that comes at the cost of a nice chunk of mana. In return it leads to more damage with the potential for a lot of Low Blows; its more aggressive. PLD has had an on demand blind far longer, but because of large pulls and PLD's lack of aoe it goes largely unnoticed.

Also lets go with flash doing damage. We can go ahead and get rid of the blind since it'll fail to see use anymore. Flash is a spell. Fight or Flight increases Physical damage, not attack power. So our damage boosting cooldown is still useless for Flash. Also, Blood bath does not work on spells. So giving flash damage does very little.

Overpower does physical damage, can be used with blood bath, and can be used in tandem with Flash's blind effect to help with the TP drain. The point I was trying to make wasn't that PLD is OP blind dodge tank. The point is Overpower is the best quick fix they could do at any point to fix PLD's AoE issue.

And I guess I should try to get a bit more on topic about single target dps. I'm in the same opinion as most others in this thread; PLD has more support abilities that make up for its lack of damage all around. In fact I find PLD more fun and rewarding in 8man content because you can help the party out more than just doing higher dps.

1. Never stated Flash killed anything nor anything about flash getting a damage buff, no idea where you got that from.

2. I'm going against your defending of Paladin's flash lessening auto attacks coming in for longer than dark knight. As Dark passengers blind into Dark Dance evasion bonus gives a up time of 35 seconds total compared to PLD's flashes blind which at most has a 21 second up time. Aka Dark Knight has the better evasion and can do it for longer.

3. I agree that Drk destroys PLD's dodging auto attacks and still pushes out more damage due to both Dark Passenger and Dark Dance not taking up a GCD, thus still allowing the spam of their AoE.

4. If you add damage onto Flash, blind would still work for about 10 seconds. Seeing as blind isn't over written with the lesser duration until you drop below 6 seconds. So no, they should keep that on if for whatever reason they do add damage to the spell.

5-7 minute Recast (once a raid?), PLD tethers to a party member in range, if the member is KO'd, instant raise option (keeping buffs would be appreciated) or instead of death they get temporary Knockdown + Invulnerable(?), and their aggro transfers to the PLD. Can be slotted in CD rotation for 1 tank buster while PLD is OT.

While this sounds good on paper, I think the job should steer away from abilities that are there for other party member mess ups. I feel it's part of what landed it in the position that it's currently in.