WAR love is out of hand. Twelve forbid the other Tanks stand out in any way.

[Kaith]

Ok simple question.

You're entering Alex Savage and have to keep the same composition for all stages (purely because of Eso gearblocks). Your options of MT are WAR or PLD, which do you take? (This is purely MT, the one you don't pick does not go to OT slot).

The rest of the party composition can be anything you like so you can have a WAR OT or a NIN in the party if you want.

I know that I personally would rather take the WAR regardless of the rest of the set-up.


EDIT: For clarification I didn't see the below quoted post when I posted the above.

Disagree, in this video you can see for yourself how the damage mitigation for PLD vs WAR is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSEqjWfGFc
I took much more damage than Shinzee did, bearing in mind he always had more/stronger mobs on him than I did. This is where one of PLDs underrated strengths comes in to play. PLD taking by far the least damage in most encounters, allows others to do more damage, ie: healers. You may also notice that I spent quite a large time in Deliverance in that video, purely because Shinzee's mitigation was strong enough to tank so much at once, which enabled me to DPS more. Even at the end of my video he deliberately takes mobs off me to allow me to change stance and push the phase, whereas I guarantee I would have required much more healing attention had I been the one to take from him.

PLD is great, and is always relevant, since it brings a lot of strengths to groups that can't be measured in simple DPS numbers, as mentioned above. It'll always be the lowest DPS as MT, but since it's such a potent "safe" tank, it can effectively increase the groups performance.

Isn't A2S the only place where this comes into play in current endgame though?

It doesn't in A1S.
In A2S it does as you showed.
I don't have A3S experience to judge there but no group has cleared A3S with a PLD yet have they? I imagine next week with i200 weapons in play we'll see that though.
I am assuming A4S is back to largely magical damage like A4 normal?

So it only really comes into play for 1 of the 4 Alex floors doesn't it? If I'm wrong there, I'm happily admit it as I haven't personally stepped into A3S or A4S.