Quote Originally Posted by SwordCoheir View Post
And yet despite sharing the same attributes and the same purpose, they in no way funtion in the same manner. PLD works proactively utilizing a shield and abilities to help mitigate damage which makes sense, WAR's reactively heal damage to lessen the healers strain and has effective workarounds to defiances damage penalties where PLD doesn't. The WAR's self heal capability needs a bit of work I admit after playing around on it a little, but that comes from it's own job design and potency factors and not from gear which effectively is the same for all classes stat wise. And really it's not all that exclusive to PLDs as mages can wear them in the same manner as well.
Mages primary function is not to tank. PLD gets a bonus mitigation slapped on their gear compared to warrior, while this is in no way compensated in either WAR gear or WAR skills. Can you truly say that this is not an oversight?