Xeno's Warrior Tanking Guide

[Donjo]

I tank without Defiance all the time, but never tell my healers that haha XD. Its definitely possible to hold threat against dps not in tank stance a WAR actually has much more threat generation than a PLD. in addition to being a higher potency Butcher's Blocks also generates more aggro than Rage Of Halone. Anything PLD can do a WAR can and vice versa, both tanks are very balanced in this game. I think your numbers may be a tad off on the DPS of the tanks. PLD in sword oath actually does identical damage as WAR without defiance if played correctly. With the slashing debuff a pld is capable of slightly higher dps than war. However where the big difference lies in while tanking. A warrior will destroy a pld in terms of DPS while in tank stance. Warriors just have much more offensive abilities while tanking

Most of this is what I've gathered regarding the damage of the tanks as well. In Tank Stance, WAR wins hands down. In non-Tank stance, PLD wins if and only if a WAR is providing Storm's Eye. Whee.

But, enmity. I was under the impression that WAR and PLD were pretty equal here as well. If, say, both tanks were going ham on one enemy, the WAR would certainly come out ahead at first because of their superior burst while the PLD just goes 1-2-3 easy mode all day. Once the WAR loses that burst, they're alternating between Butcher's Block and one Storm constantly like a good little tank while the PLD just keeps pressing 1-2-3. Thus, unless Butcher's Block provides at least a clean 2 times more enmity potency than Halone, the PLD is currently generating threat more quickly. This would mean that in a theoretical equal gear situation, the PLD would hopefully have caught up to the WAR's threat... just before the WAR's next burst time. In fact, the PLD might actually steal the monster for a short time before that happens.

So, my conclusion there is that WAR threat is an ebb and flow with high burst and lower consistent threat outside of that burst(unless they only use the BB combo, which is probably a poor decision) while PLD threat has a higher consistent rate but weak burst.