Quote Originally Posted by Argyle_Darkheart View Post
Don't get it twisted. People are dropping PLD and WAR for DRK/GNB because the former two have notably inferior DPS.

While PLD's rotation has issues (depending on who you ask), the balance problem is a matter of numbers. I mean, just look at WAR.
For WAR's sake, it is numbers. For PLD, it's having Goring thrown out of the Raid Buff Window at the end after 3-4 cycles of both Req/FoF rotations. That in itself is a DPS loss because of how PLD is designed rotationally. At most, you're losing 1s via dropping an Atonement and losing more GCDs within the Buff Window every 2 rotations if there is no downtime. The whole reason why PLD is behind is because they don't fit into the Raid Buff Window like the rest of the jobs naturally if you're not dropping any GCDs. They're the only job that ignores this fact in game design when they brought about Endwalker - where the Devs wanted us to focus on 2m Burst.