Paladin weakest Tank now

[Arcturius]

Or we make drk just as good in mitigation as the other 3 and bring them all to around the same dps. All the tanks have problems. This thread is for pld dps which is a problem. Don't use another classes problem to be a reason to let another problem remain.

[Hammerhorn]

Patch 6.08 can’t come fast enough, as someone who has mained PLD since launch I know when something is wrong with the class. I’ve been ringing this alarm bell since mid December so I’m happy to see a increase coming we will see how “good” it is. To the DRK brotheren I hope you guys get a better kit for defense remember this is not tank vs.tank, it’s Tank vs. being relevant.

[Falar]

They really nailed the design of PLD this time around. With the exception of Raise still being gone this is the most "Paladin" feeling iteration yet. Plenty of ranged holy magic spells, ways to reduce damage to allies, heal yourself, and still lots of swordplay. If they add some potency to the magic combo I'm sure no one will be complaining about anything to do with Paladin.

[Undeadfire]

If they add some potency to the magic combo I'm sure no one will be complaining about anything to do with Paladin.

I mean sure, but it still doesn't solve the opener problem.

[AziraSyuren]

It's actually hilarious how PLD still lags so far behind with a mega cursed, clearly-not-intended-by-the-devs opener.

Hilarious and sad.

[Xrison]

Any guesses on how they are going to buff PLD in the upcoming patch? Do you think it will just be potency increases? Or do you think they are going to rework some abilities?

[Shinimas]

Any guesses on how they are going to buff PLD in the upcoming patch? Do you think it will just be potency increases? Or do you think they are going to rework some abilities?

Just gonna be some potency increases, they're not spending time on reworks at this point. I wouldn't expect any significant changes until 7.0

[Undeadfire]

If they want to fix the rotations, Atonements potency has gotta be greater than Reqs Holy, then it's solved, how much it keeps up is a different story.

[Absimiliard]

It would need truly massive potency increases to have any hope of keeping up with the other tanks. Not being able to match its stuff to raid CD windows without using an extremely cursed opener (and still falling out of synch anyway) could easily be enough to bench it for the entire expansion. Problem is, making it strong enough to work through potency increases only is going to make it so much stronger than the other tanks in all other forms of content (which, granted, WAR could do with a little competition since it's the king of everything that isn't a raid or trial) outside of 8-man that it's ridiculous.

[Anhra]

I think its fair that PLD should have the weakest damage output from all the Tanks.

First of all, your competitors swing oversized axes, oversized swords and a sword that does explosions. Your regular pokestick isn't much in comparison.
Second, PLD should have the edge when it comes to utility, at least in theory. If Squeenix would finally manage it to remove all the utility bloat from DRK/WAR/GNB (by replacing them with something more fitting for the Job that doesn't contribute to homogenisation), then even the low dmg output would hardly matter, because PLD has other qualities besides that.

Tl;dr: it isn't always about the dmg.