Why is my damage so low?

[Shougun]

At expansion roll overs (50 has peak gear, 60, 70, etc) you can get huge damage boosts, so getting your weapon a rollover weapon would help a lot. At least from looking at your profile, might not be updated all the way yet.

So something like that:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...m/695c329d011/

If you've the tomestones you can just deck yourself out in the tomestone gear of that patch, but you probably are moving so fast you might not get enough tomes before you're already hitting the next roll over. At least from what I heard from people doing MSQ now that it's old, things move pretty fast.

I'd make sure at least every 5 levels you check your weapon. And every 10 other pieces of gear. You don't need to side track your life, or spend loads of gil, but keep an eye out for sure. Big items like weapon (+ shield as PLD), chest, legs, can mean a lot in stats. And as a tank if you miss too much armor and hit a roll over point you can start to take a lot of damage out of no where, like if you were in peak level 50 gear entering a level 61 dungeon.

Of course you can have other issues like broken gear, then that doesn't count to your stats, and as other state if you synced down it'll adjust your stats too (but the sync has some leeway so if you way over gear is different than slightly over gearing lol).