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

[HiirNoivl]

Also it takes a really short amount of time to go from 1-50 in this game playing normally and end game content is anything that requires you to get out of AF gear (though for a warrior that may be a lot of things).

The reason is when you get to endgame, the bar raises significantly and the endgame gear provided by Tokens does not actually upgrade WAR to the level of the endgame content. So people think that WAR is broken when they've geared wrong.

Not only have they geared wrong but they may have specced wrong and may be playing incorrectly.

It could be anything, but yeah I'm playing WAR as a Critical hit Buffed tank and I deal heavier damage than I take, in fact, when I'm holding Wrath V and I use Internal release the amount of critical hits likely hits the 40% range, but I need to test some more.

If you're a WAR, you need to do two things, deal a lot of damage in a short period of time and heal up a lot of HP and deal a lot of damage.

Because people's IBs are not critting, their damage is not critting, the think that WAR is weak and squishy. But I think... WAR is "very strong".

But to get "very strong'. you have to spend a lot of gil and effort and people think that WAR should be like PLD, all easy mode with 0 effort.

But it's not. IF you want to deal 1.5 more damage as WAR to get it ready for endgame to the point that it's a MT in coil you have to spend gil you have to craft and you have to do all he uncool things that have little to do with dungeons.

This is pretty much impossible simply due to WAR and PLD sharing the same gear. Tank gear in ARR is universal, so unless you split tanking gear between WAR and PLD gear (this would make the drop system even more random than it currently is) you're not going to see this massive divergence caused by gear.

The divergence between PLD and WAR is in the jobs' mechanics and how they deal with incoming damage.

You can use Darklight Armor with with WAR but I don't recommend any other Darklight. Darksteel HQ is far better.