Quote Originally Posted by Kyana View Post
Well, I find it a bit hard to compare, for example, Overpower and Flash+CoS.
Or that I have no problems holding hate if using Storms Path/Storms Eye combos compared to Riot Blade spam.

I agree that survivability of both is about the same, but WAR does bring a bit more to the table in my opinion.
Absolutely false. If anything War is the crappier one.

In terms of content you have a 80/20 split of "need" for a PLD vs War. Aka. "we need a pld" vs " we want a war".

There are content that the strategy hinges on a PLD. There will alway be a spot for 1 PLD, Where a 2nd PLD doesn't hurt.

Abilities include:
Hollow ground <---- 1st and foremost "we need this for the content" T4 even with echo is still stupidly annoying without it. Can be done with a war now, but much easier with a pld.

Shield bash <---- chain stunning is still a staple of "we need a pld"

Cover <---- a distant 3rd but some content are much easier with this.

Basically
PLD/War <--- yes
PLD/PLD <--- It works
War/War <----ewwwwwwwwwww