Warrior is OP! Paladin is OP! Make one tank class and be done with it....

[Sephirah]

Firstly, I'd like to see a link to one of those interviews.

This is an old interview, but I'm pretty sure they have kept this in mind moving forward.

"JPGAMES.DE: The marauder is a very good damage dealer and also, for example in the Ifrit fights, a really good tank, even a better one than the gladiator. What are your plans for the marauder and its job warrior? How can the paladin/gladiator keep up?

Yoshida Naoki: We are going to make sure to do everything to get the balance right and then we are going to make adjustments to that. For example, the marauder is going to be a really strong attacker, but we don’t want to spoil all the gladiator’s tank positional skills....Of course we need to improve some areas and some areas might be shifted to a different job, so some people might get disappointed. *laughs* So, you can look forward to it, but you can also be quite wary of it.

http://www.bluegartr.com/archive/ind.../t-107491.html

There are some more I'll need to do some digging to find them again where they are both talked about, but point is. If you're waiting for dev to say "btw guys war is offtank" that won't happen, but you can see by the way it's designed, how it plays, and how they talk about it, that that's what they're going for. Again I'm not saying this means they're offtank by default, they may have plans for fights in the future where you need a war over a pld, it's too soon to tell. But they shouldn't homogenous.