Quote Originally Posted by Zophar View Post
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.
Okay sure, it doesn't REALLY has a functional difference but in my experience, I survive better with PLD than WAR and that's my take on it.
Besides, PLD has both Block and Parry while WAR only has Parry. Yeah, it's not game breaking difference (otherwise SE would've "fixed" it) but its a plus towards PLD.

In light of some threads nowadays, I see that to some people, a fun class is an active class that requires you to actively pushing buttons at the right time and places. PLD is more towards pushing one button and that's it. In my opinion, that's what the class is good at. Making sure you have the right kind of thing, at the right time without making such a fuss about it. WAR has to stack up 5 wraths and then you have to Inner Beast to get that 20% mitigation but all PLD has to do is push the Rampart button and viola, you're good.