Exactly, you must use a Storms Eye or Path combo as WAR to keep Maim up, which lowers your overall threat compared to PLD... PLD does more damage (and threat) than a WAR does if the WAR only spams Butchers Block because PLD does more Auto-Attack damage due to Sword Oath. You cannot cannot cannot forget about that when comparing them. If you are considering Shield Oath vs Defiance only, then it becomes similar.

Kudos to you if you can tank without Defiance on as a WAR, but even a full STR WAR w/o Defiance cannot hold off any DPS thats doing higher than 450-470 DPS, and it can BARELY hold off of a STR PLD even in Defiance, assuming you are doing Eye. Also a side note, when we were testing the usefulness of a STR PLD we found that a WAR with full STR ilvl 104 cannot hold threat off a full 110 PLD in Sword Oath... its sooooo soooo close even for a 110 WAR. So the usefulness of WAR MT, STR PLD OT is really limited just due to the humungous amount of threat the PLD generates.... progression is pretty much out of the question.

Also my PLD 380 Top end and WAR 400 top end should be pretty accurate... 1 mistake on WAR's rotation (at all) drops it by 15-20 DPS instantly, its crazy. So PLD and WAR both probably do 380 top end just because of how difficult it is for WAR to pull out that extra 5%.