WAR has always had crit bonus. The changes made them do more damage out of tank stance & less damage in tank stance.(which had the crit bonus) Their self heal is only a self heal, which limits what they can do with it compared to PLD. PLD casting on another player also results in an effective 50% potency boost, or 1800 potency. Clemency is very good used in A4, and I'm thinking it may actually be a nice life saver in addition to Sheltron after getting rocked by Jagd Doll + Boomcannon on DRK, which does damage based on how low your HP is. Keep in mind WAR also have a 60 second cool down on it.

SE is pushing WAR further into the OT slot with these new abilities. You wouldn't care if you didn't have to compete with DRK for the MT slot.