Shoulder Tackle is godly, what are you talking about, it saves you a good ten seconds of running around every time you use, often saving you a stack of Greased Lightning.
And don't think that your weaker hits are any lesser to the damage of a Dragoon, certainly you're not pulling 700 damage on a hit like they do, but in the time I do one of those hits you can easily pull of two hits of 350, you attack fast, very fast. Your DPS comes out of sheer consistency and rapid damage, different from the Dragoon whose DPS comes from slower and stronger blows.

And yes i've played both