4.1 and us tanks

[Claire_Pendragon]

WAR needs utility

While not wrong, I would like to point out WAR does have its share of utility, even if its not quite seen.
Holmgang is a mitigation CD, but its so darn useful, it leaves the other tank to save mitigation CDs for other stuff.

And the most obvious one being slashing resistance.
While SAMs and RDMs are the most common, and NINs still exist, there's plenty of groups, and times my raid group didnt have a NIN, and we never have a SAM, and we had to make our DRK OT switch to WAR OT (or MT for holmgang) just for the extra slashing resistance down. (since it wasnt clear enough, no, im not suggesting RDM has the slashing debuff. just that its one of 2, of the most popular DPS, showing that SAM is very likely to be in your group.)

The issue with utility, stems from speed run builds, where they usually already have stuff covered.

The oldschool path giving -10% raid dmg was nice, but still not going to make ppl pick WAR over another tank in that alone. (but it would honestly help cover the gap lost from "Cover" and "TBN" which WAR has nothing like, for similar function.)