Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Shurrikhan]

You do realize that your party composition is a fairly significant confounding factor in any aDPS comparison, right? It's not just influenced by buff alignment, but also the number of buffs you have access to (minus very specific buffs that can be used for artificial single target padding). That's why it's specifically intended for self-comparison. This is why we switched to looking at rDPS in the first place.

Yes, which is why I mentioned the comparison of one's rDPS to their raw damage for a given composition.

nDPS specifically precludes looking at buffs received. rDPS specifically precludes looking at their exploitation. Neither is a complete picture until looking at the whole party.

That's why a PLD can have plentiful rDPS in itself while still putting the party behind.

It's not so significant that I'd, personally, reshape the job over it instead of just increasing its rDPS to perhaps even just barely above DRK or GNB (with its contribution to total rDPS falling neck-and-neck), especially as there is no mainstay challenging light party content anyways in which for PLD to be thereby overpowered, but an individual's rDPS alone does not tell the whole story.