With the launch of Stormblood

[Brian_]

Short of making all three tanks identical, they are never going to be able to balance the tanks across 2 different sub-roles. It doesn't matter how small the gap in performance is, people will find it and they will make it matter.

The gap between PLD and DRK right now is not even that bad. The gap is between PLD / DRK and WAR as an OT.

So, do PLD and DRK need to be competitive OTs? With a new expansion looming? I don't think so. Then again, I am not married to a job like some people are. If I want to MT, I will play PLD or DRK. If I want to OT... I guess I have no choice but to play WAR. If they make PLD and DRK viable OTs, then yea, I'd have more options. Do you know how else I'd have more options? If they just added a new OT.

So yea, sometimes it's not a matter of choice. Sometimes you queue into DF or RF and get a PLD + DRK pairing. And? Are you trying to optimize raid DPS in DF / RF or something? Or blaming your inability to clear on PLD + DRK?

When I choose to play DRG, MNK, or NIN, I am choosing to play one role. Melee DPS. When I choose to play BRD, I am choosing to play one role. Ranged DPS. Are tanks really so special that we get to ask SE that all our jobs should fill two slightly varying roles equally optimally?

This is still a problem. The OT skillset needs to allow the tank to be a fully competent MT, but the other is not true. Just look at what PLD loses if it's not actively tanking.
If SAM was designed to be an OT tank, you can be sure that all premade parties would have sought SAM+WAR.

How about no? You keep on saying this garbage but it's wrong.

PLD is a better MT than WAR. Especially during progression. As long as your new OT job is really competitive with WAR and similarly worse than PLD / DRK as MT, you'd have no issues.