Do Warriors have any single disadvantage?

[Phoenicia]

Huge snip.

On the Contrary, Ravana is a fight that favors burst. Burst is WAR's specialty. WAR losing a few GCDs is hardly a problem when the fight is supposed to favor them.

In Deliverance, WAR loses ALL its defenses (read: Inner Beast). DRK and PLD still have all their defensive CDs and only lose the tank stance EHP. In Deliverance WAR is just a sturdier DRG. Yes we can play with our other defensives, but those hardly work well on their without Inner Beast.

My point isn't that WAR needs another class. Yes WAR synergies with NIN and the other tanks are AMAZING. But Storm Eye debuff is not "unique".

I have been WAR main since 2.0 and I'm considering going back to it. I main tanked and off tanked EVERY fight in my statics' progression with the exception of T9 (where we went solo tank and I was SMN) and I have a few Phoenix server firsts (mainly primals) and seconds (T12 & T13) under my belt. So your accusation of me not raiding is irrelevant.

Storm Path IS SO OVERRATED and it is the ONLY WAR-exclusive benefit. I have always dropped it the second my healers got accustomed to boss rotations. Exception was in T13 because that fight's damage was ridiculously high. where I applied SP before Mega/Giga Flare and then let it drop for the rest of the fight. When my group got geared I dropped SP entirely. No other fight in the game is so highly tuned. In my Savage SCoB attempts I was a PLD.

PLD/DRK combos lose ONLY SP. Bringing a NIN is a raid DPS benefit since it does more DPS than MNK. Raid DPS wise, they are probably better than PLD/WAR with a monk and hardly behind DRK/WAR with NIN/DRG.

I'm not denying that WAR is excellent and versatile. WAR is the best designed tank of the three. I'm just saying it's not so far ahead of the other tanks.

If you read my other posts, you will see that WAR and PLD are close in mitigation. PLD is NOT "only physical". PLD and WAR do NOT suck at magic fights either. It's just DRK is stupid good against magical damage. Also notice that DRK is pure shite in physical fights. Check my post in page 9 if you wanna see the numbers again.