Yoshi P talks about Warriors- from Producer Letter Live @ TGS

[Giantbane]

The group that i play with went all the way up to BC turn 4 with 1 WAR and 1 PLD. Our WAR decided to reroll PLD and now we have turn 4 down lol. (Beat turn 4 last week)

All in all, I do think some changes have to be done to Warriors. Just not mitigation because that would defeat the purpose of the class.

I don't think some additional mitigation will defeat the role of the class. If you were to, say, add an ability similar to sentinel that would allow a WAR to take heavily reduced damage over a short period of time, it wouldn't all of a sudden turn them into mitigation tanks because they have one ability that mitigates dmg. Hell, you could make it eat wrath for "flavor" if you need to. PLD would still be more mitigation centric and WAR would still be more self-healing centric.

[Altsein]

I don't think some additional mitigation will defeat the role of the class. If you were to, say, add an ability similar to sentinel that would allow a WAR to take heavily reduced damage over a short period of time, it wouldn't all of a sudden turn them into mitigation tanks because they have one ability that mitigates dmg. Hell, you could make it eat wrath for "flavor" if you need to. PLD would still be more mitigation centric and WAR would still be more self-healing centric.

I can see that working. What i meant by not adding mitigation though, is more along the lines of how PLDs are able to take less dmg passively compared to WARs.