So why play anything other then paladin?

[Mnemosynia]

One thing the paladins can't do as well as the other tanks is aoe damage. Drk has much better sustain on large pulls and War will beat in aoe damage with 6 steel cyclones.

Doesn't matter aslong as they can hold aggro the group will cover the loses, they may have slightly less power in aoe pulls but given they can manage the emnity far better and have the best mitigation will do it, it will leave healers with more time to aoe which maybe a dps increase based on how good your healer is.

[MrsFluffyButt]

Doesn't matter aslong as they can hold aggro the group will cover the loses, they may have slightly less power in aoe pulls but given they can manage the emnity far better and have the best mitigation will do it, it will leave healers with more time to aoe which maybe a dps increase based on how good your healer is.

Warriors have the best damage mitigation though. Inner Beast, Vengeance, Rampart. Good job, mate.

[Launched]

Warriors have the best damage mitigation though. Inner Beast, Vengeance, Rampart. Good job, mate.

Doesn't really matter. Mitigation overkill is a thing, just like overhealing. If PLD can comfortably survive everything in Sword Oath (and its skillset seems like it should be fine for that, especially since Sheltron works in Sword Oath and you can block magic) and do more DPS/have more utility at the same time, why bother taking a tank with higher mitigation?

[Shurrikhan]

Doesn't really matter. Mitigation overkill is a thing, just like overhealing. If PLD can comfortably survive everything in Sword Oath (and its skillset seems like it should be fine for that, especially since Sheltron works in Sword Oath and you can block magic) and do more DPS/have more utility at the same time, why bother taking a tank with higher mitigation?

This. Just consider how ridiculously powerful XIV healers are. With so few globals required to refresh a tank's health, there's little time to be saved via mitigation, making the freed globals unlikely to outproduce the passive damage increase of a Paladin, even were a DRK or WAR significantly better mitigators. Beyond eHP (+shields), it's a slack game.