Quote Originally Posted by EvanderStoneguard View Post
I wonder if the healing board theres a topic of "OMG CNJ/WHM are better tank healers than ARC/SCH" and that ARC/SCH are only raid healers.
Probably not, because you need both in a raid, and the combined utility of both is always useful when compared to stacking.

On the other hand, "off tank" isn't a role. You may call it a position but the role is still tank. The problem is that PAL can off tank just as easily if not more easily than WAR. They tend to have good if not better AOE damage and threat between circle of scorn and flash. On top of that they naturally get Provoke, which is also extremely useful for picking up adds as it's off the GCD.

The fact that if a warrior is going to be dedicated to off-tanking (i.e. tanking mobs which are not up 100% of the time) they have to completely rely on 2 PLD skills in order to do it something should strike you with that. Particularly if you are for some reason claiming WAR is a BETTER offtank. Because they absolutely are not.

So what does that leave WAR with as a niche? If their only niche is to be a tank when there are no PLD around that's not a niche at all. It's simply being inferior.