"Warrior tank sucks!" opinions only based on one or two factors atm?

[Hachiko]

Also, hate it for Warriors. From my perspective, as a PLD, it's not really the small but significant static difference in effective tanking. It's the massive amount of proactive defensive cooldowns that PLDs get.

The difference isn't small. It's massive.

Interestingly enough, there is a rough parity between mitigation from cooldowns. The PLD cooldowns are all better, and actually more usable, and scale better with monster damage, but the WAR cooldowns provide a significant amount of mitigation.

The biggest difference is Shield Oath v. Defiance/Inner Beast, the ability to block, and the STR reduction from Rage of Halone.