Quote Originally Posted by elemental10 View Post
Passive damage mitigation.

You do NOTHING and you still get benefits.

"But... WAR has more HP bla bla bla"

Yeah but I find surviving as a PLD is easier than as a WAR, considering mitigation plays a big role in tanking. And PLD got lots of that.
Straight comparison between Defiance and Shield Oath, I'm sorry, there literally is no functional difference. If you're talking about exclusively passively, really, you're talking about the difference between pld's block rate and war's parry rate, Which might be a difference, but it's not a game breaking difference. Sorry.