Quote Originally Posted by IskarJarak View Post
I think the AoE (or lack thereof) is fine. Pld's are designed to be kings of single targets. Pld's can still hold hate with AoE fine, and a Whm can out dps dps on big AoE pulls and feel special... I think because of Pld's lack of AoE dps they should have higher single target dps tho. Even if it was something like ShO having the same auto attack buff as SwO... nothing drastic or game changing, just something to make up for the offensive abilities of the other two tanks.
"highest single target dps on PLD" will make PLD as the OT, and switcharounds on meta are going to be messy(DRK left out to dust, WAR as MT and PLD as OT), not to mention PLD is so easy to DPS with the static GB>RA>RA repeat. Also to add, PLD was supposed to be your most defensive tank which is really not true as any tank can clear any content just fine. If any, PLD needs huge utility buffs for teams to consider further whether to just get DRK or stick with PLD after clearing to do better DPS(PLD/MNK is great btw). Straight buffs to PLD's DPS is a very low approach and it's a lazy solution since DRK/WAR are much harder to effectively do DPS, thus DRK/WAR topping the optimal DPS should be natural.

AOE is a good enough concern that needs to be addressed sooner or later when you compare to other tanks. Flash doesn't do any damage, the more you do it the lower your DPS is (FoF also doesn't buff your enmity generation for Flash which sucks). Other tanks have more than 1 AOE damaging aggro skills, PLD only has 1.

TLDR: Paladin simply doesn't have to be on par with DRK/WAR in terms of DPS.

Is there any update from SE so far if they are going to re-tweak PLD again? At this point it might as well be PLD/MNK for learning/clearing and then DRK/DRG for weekly and for pushing DPS and time clears.