Questions about PLD vs. WAR tanking

[chidarake]

I just started levelling war, currently level 32, and yeah war's overpower is mental easy to get that group threat up quick however I wouldn't say its better than flash for controlling hate whilst dps aoe's.

I say this with a lot of experience tanking as pld behind me against all sorts of combo's in dps. especially two well geared blm doing full fire 2 and double / triple flare rotations.

if you know there going to aoe its much easier to tank against it and so really you should just assume that they are going too and especially if you see that first fire 2 you should start flashing more.

as with anything in this game regarding class's you just have to learn what to do in certain situations and 1-2 flashes is not going to hold hate against full aoe attacks from dps.

as far as the blm goes he was being an idiot and it would of been nice to know if he had even tanked anything to offer up advice in the first place. but even if you were new to tanking then he should of been more constructive rather than just being the way he was.

also a note on fire 1 to fire 2.. yes fire 1 does more single target damage but fire 2 does more damage overall the enemies assuming it hits all. so yes if you want a single target burned down then you could mark it so the dps know but otherwise a good dps would use aoe spells, although I find fire 2 so weak personally in low level dungeons that it does not really speed things up. ( I main blm and 2nd pld)