Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
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.
Even if that's the case, extra mitigation still means nothing when the other tanks can still survive the content. Damage is always more desired and always will be until SE does an overhaul which they never will. If you take a large hit and are left with 10k hp instead of 6k it doesn't make a difference, you survived the tank buster you can keep on hitting stuff.