PLD + DRK synergy; WAR falling behind?

[Phoenicia]

Just pointing out 1 thing:

WAR mitigates more damage than PLD, even if PLD can block magic damage. Reason: WAR has way more CDs to stack up. Been this way since ARR. Just convert their CDs to effective health and compare them. And now WAR gets rampart on top of their already superior arsenal. The only time PLD mitigates more damage than WAR is during Hallowed Ground, which is 10 seconds every 7 minutes, and when split over the course of a fight is still not enough to make up the difference between WAR and PLD.

Reason why WAR doesn't play defensively: It sacrifices too much damage to obtain said mitigation. One example: Inner Beast vs Fell Cleave. Also going from +5% in Deliverance to -25% in Defiance (biggest dip between 3 tanks). Also tank swaps make any difference in mitigation obsolete anyways. The difference between PLD and WAR mitigation is within 5~7% over a fight anyways.

And before you give me crap about shield block and shield oath, reducing damage isn't the only way to "mitigate" damage.

Assuming PLD will do 30% more DPS or so than the two other tanks is just napkin math really on numbers that Yoshi-P clearly stated are no where near final. Not to mention most of the tooltips were mistranslated and/or had absolutely wrong potency values (Fester being 200 potency but doing 50% more damage than Painflare's 200 potency is one example). I wouldn't jump the gun until the 16th of June.

PLD + DRK synergy is just something I don't get. DRK will get 1 shield move.. ONE... And it's basically a single target Divine Veil.. So bleh. Anything else that comes close to utility DRK has is just cross-role ability which is available to all three tanks. And based on the same napkin math that everyone is getting a kneejerk reaction to, DRK will be the lowest DPS tank.

As I said, I wouldn't fuss about it until the 16th of June comes out.

~Phoenicia~