Quote Originally Posted by SwordCoheir View Post
Since you'd ideally save your buffs for Death Sentence and they're 30 seconds apart (sometimes a little longer if she's mid-cast) you should always have something up for DS every time if you have a solid rotation, on top of that you can pre-emptively Stoneskin to negate another 500-650 damage on PLD, so I don't think IB is going to give WAR any advantages over PLD in that instance besides letting them be more on PAR.
WAR is getting a substantially improved CD suite come 2.1 (Vengeance on 120 sec CD, Foresight on 90 sec CD, Convalescence on 120 sec CD, ToB on 120 sec CD, Holmgang on 180 sec CD; Featherfoot and Mantra are also there, but Featherfoot is unreliable and Mantra is really more of a group buff) which means that, while PLD is going to have stronger comparable CDs, WAR is still going to have one available for every single one as well. When you compared the, albeit weaker, WAR CD stacked with IB against a PLD's single CD, WAR is still going to do better.

Stoneskin is also not really a major advantage given that your WHM should be Stoneskinning you before Death Sentence anyways (and your SCH should be throwing Adloq on you too). Stoneskin for a PLD contributes about as much as Inner Beast's heal so, even if your WHM *isn't* throwing SS on you preemptively, unless you waste the IB heal completely, the two effects are, essentially, a break even (the IB self heal and Stoneskin, that is).

The only time that PLD actually pulls ahead of WAR is when damage is spread out evenly rather than primarily lumped into 6 second windows (of which there really aren't any outside of trash packs). Either that or when the player at the helm of the WAR is bad/mediocre. The length of the PLD CDs is definitely going to make PLD a much more *forgiving* tank to play, but, when properly leveraged, WAR is going to do better.