Quote Originally Posted by VargasVermillion View Post
They tried this in heavensward and all that happened was PLD got benched. Extra mitigation means nothing if all tanks can survive the content (which they should.)
In Heavensward it was more that Paladin was the physical mitigation tank (but useless at magical mitigation), DRK was the magical mitigation tank (but meh at physical mitigation), and WAR was the DPS tank. The raids in Heavensward were almost exclusively magical damage so it made PLD useless. Where physical mitigation occurred (such as in some ex primals), PLD became much more favoured. Now in Stormblood, PLD could become the mitigation tank for both physical and magical damage (now they can block magic damage in SB, which they couldn't in HW), and I don't think they'd simply be benched.