Lets nerf WAR :D

[Syzygian]

WAR being the most powerful tank isn't what's in contention. Any honest, experienced, player will likely agree that WAR is the most powerful tank.

What is in contention is whether or not WAR is more powerful than it should be; that would warrant a nerf.

I feel like it is. WAR is considerably more potent of a tank than both DRK and PLD. PLD and DRK are the ones that are on more or less equal footing, the main thing keeping PLD from seeing usage isn't its design, but the design of raids. When one tank is way ahead of the other's its overpowered, it doesn't make the other two tanks underpowered. Now if DRK and WAR were both "overpowered" and PLD seemed poor in comparison to both, that'd be a different story, or if they buff PLD and DRK ends up in that place, then again, different story. Currently it is WAR that is the outlier. Frankly its all subjective. Its either this or the flood of buff PLD threads, and buff DRK (completely unnecessary imo), to a lesser extent. But it makes more sense to me to nerf a single job than to have to buff two others, which only seem like underperformers in the shadow of WAR.

I've said it elsewhere but it bears repeating. Every job in this game has strengths and weaknesses, not just PLD and DRK, but WAR currently has all strengths, and no genuine weaknesses. Its balance isn't just for the sake of the other tanks, but the entire game, imo.

I would go so far as to flip your argument over and say why SHOULD WAR be SO MUCH more powerful than the other tanks, OVERALL in both MT and OT DPS while being equal in mitigation/equal in utility?