Paladin too overpowered, nerf their damage output!

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And yet, you have to acknowledge that this is also means that the warriors dps performance, when completely isolated, is a bit better than the other tanks. Of course, this advantage disappears as soon as someone else supplies said debuff, allowing the other 2 tanks to "catch up". Square Enix also uses solo performance to "tune" a class.

In this case, in order to "tune" the tanks, Square would have to calculate with the slashing debuff always applied to the target, acknowledging that most raid groups propably will supply a different way to bring slashing resistance down into the mix.

Absolutely granted. But being tuned in a vacuum doesn't really solve the issue of all contents not being in said vacuum.