PLD tanking every primal

[Balaur]

wars are supposed to be back up tanks mostly while being damage dealers heavy heavy damage dealers. I have no idea why anyone thinks a war should be a tank. PLD SHIELD HONOR STRENGTH. WAR TEAR SOME SH!T UP!

How is this really true? You'd not be able to queue if you were never designed to be a tank, and setting up the expectation that you are the pointman for an encounter but have to step aside from point for some dude with a shield seems unreasonable and, frankly, stupid. Warriors tank differently, including needing to take some damage to make some abilities work. There's a fear there, I think.

Take Death Knights in WoW, which tank without shields, or Druids. It's a different form of tanking, and it mostly means you use different skills for dealing with incoming damage, either through mitigation (parrying, which FFXIV Warriors get) or revenge mechanics (which FFXIV Warriors also get). It's a different challenge, and a tougher one; it means that Warrior tanking will be less easy than for Paladins. But that doesn't mean Paladin tanking is better.

This whole thing is an unfounded fear.