PLD will either need to do less damage than WAR and DRK or they need to give WAR and DRK utility comparable to PLD. Everyone wants the second solution, but from SEs point of view that is impossible until savage (they fucked up to much with the SB release).

And the problem of PLD in 3.x was never damage alone (except maybe A3 and A4 early progression), it was that the PLD utility also sucked compared to what DRK and especially WAR brought.

And I am happy that they seem to be going with desperately needed gameplay changes and slight buffs/nerfs first.