Quote Originally Posted by saevel View Post
Aegis was ~THE~ best shield for PLD in the game period. It allowed a PLD to do things that no non-Aegis PLD could do and has since become the defining tanking tool of PLD. Until the creation of brOchain an Aegis PLD was the highest tier tank on super hard HNMs. Of course now there really isn't many things that require a PLD to tank. Technically all the end tier VWNM's would "require" an Aegis / OChain PLD to tank them had fanatics and proc spam not existed. Of course SE might be fixing that shortly, never can be sure with them.
I would like to comment that even though Ochain was introduced, Aegis isn't less good. Now we just have a physical shield for mobs that don't cast or keep magic to a manageable level. Aegis is still the best shield for what it's made for.