Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
... if a guy wants to run as a WAR for his whole tanking career through the life of FFXIV he damn well has the right to do so and the game should accomodate that.
This is exactly the mentality I was talking about, no, the game should not accommodate that. You should NOT be able to do whatever you want regardless of your class. If you want to be the absolute tankiest tank you can be, well then your only option is to roll pld, because warrior will never have equal defense; they may receive buffs in some other ways which improve their survivability, but if your definition of what makes a tank the "best" tank is defense then it will always be pld, they were intentionally designed to be that way. As many have said, warriors CAN be main tanks right now, the only content they can't is the content that NOBODY IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN YET.

There should be times when it's advantageous to use one over the other, or one for a specific situation.