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

[Hachiko]

I can't take statements like this seriously any more. Sorry, not after parse results.

I'd like to see some of your parses.

I'm going to guess any difference between you and PLD's is explained by the fact that you tend to run some STR accessories and have 20-30 points in STR in addition to having a bunch of crit materia, whereas a PLD will be running 30 vit, and all tanking accessories.

From my experience comparing myself to other PLD tanks we're within about 10 dps of each other, and I'm heavily invested in STR. If I shifted all of that to VIT the difference would nearly vanish entirely.

And other enemies whose facing is important too, maybe intelligent usage of Holmgang can be useful?

It COULD be useful, but the only boss after the WP slime that isn't immune to Bind is Garuda, and she's already a pushover as far as tanking goes.

And even if it could be used like that, being unable to move for 6 seconds is a huge risk if you time it improperly (miss it on Demon Wall for example and you will end up bound in the slime at the back).