Why is my damage so low?

[Shougun]

You missed a key word in my post, "feel", not actual damage, as all the tanks are basically identical with minor differences every time there is a patch. Paladin doesn't feel very DPSy, not that it's actually doing less damage.

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Also Literally and Figuratively, Paladins do not feel like a DPS class, the do not feel like masters of dealing Damage, The do not feel like DPS, they feel like a Tank. They feel Tanky McTank face, Here let me shoulder this shield and get your attention, so you can't do me damage while the DPS kills you.

Warriors & Dark Knights feel like DPS sacrificing DPS for tankyness. Gunbrakers feel like well "Like here I am, I'm cool, I've got a Gunblade look at me act cool with my shiny new Gunblade". Paladin is like "I'z gotz a Shield, dur, so I'm a Tank"

I might have agreed somewhat earlier on in the history of FFXIV, especially like ARR era, but with all the changes to be frank I feel like WAR is now the dur dur class lol.

Paladin at 80 I think is pretty good. Plus we have some neat emergency tools, not so needed when you've a good group but they're cool to have for DF when you'll just randomly get someone who needs all the help in the world and Paladin can give it unlike some of the other tanks. No one can cure like the tin can man can.

Although each tank does have one thing that makes them special, so not saying PLD is the best (nor worst) but I think it's pretty cool and also definitely, anymore, not the dur dur job lol. Dur dur here meaning fairly easy and simple to play, of course each job has the entry point and then the mastery point- you can still have room to be a 'great WAR' (or insert other job here), but I feel it's pretty easy job now.

Speaking from someone who has 80'd all the jobs, for context, not saying I'm the best at all the jobs but I've a fairly decent idea how to play each job (and have done so).