Oh Square Enix… (A Heartfelt Open Letter To The Developers…)

[akisya]

Warrior has the best defensive kit of the tanks by a wide margin - not that it matters much.
Last I checked they also do more damage (generally, though that might depend on the situation).
Why does having a strong DoT necessarily matter? The form of damage doesn't really matter, does it? Actually, physical DoTs are worse than other forms of damage because they're unaffected by resistance debuffs and don't work when the boss jumps. Seriously I would like a response to this one because I see it pop up a lot and it's mind boggling. Paladin could have a 5000 potency attack but if it was on a 9 minute cooldown and all of their other attacks did 0 they would suck. I think people would still complain about it because for some reason it gets people's panties in a bunch to see paladin have a hard hitting attack.
You have a Genji weapon so I'm assuming you've completed the raid. When have you felt that Dark Knight has held you back this expansion? I'm not seeing it. Dark Knight is a little weaker than the other tanks and it's boring. It's not a cripple.

I agree that Dark Knight needs some stuff if only to keep it from being so boring but some of you guys are being ridiculous.

I have yet to see a WAR that has taken less damage than a PLD on logs with an equal amount of tanking uptime using their proper mitigation, please show me if you have seen this. WAR's defensive recast times are superior to both PLD and DRK, however, PLD's passive block to both physical and magic damage, sheltron's 100% block rate, and hallowed ground makes them the strongest in mitigation. Goring Blade IS affected by slashing, hypercharge, TA, brotherhood, and embolden, but not like that matters since PLDs don't even need to optimize around party buffs to be optimal.

Having done speedruns several of times on both PLD and DRK, it's pretty clear to say that PLD is too overpowered for how little effort you need to put into it. If you're gonna talk about just simply clearing a raid (which is what i'm assuming you do), then you're going to find no problems with any jobs since they are all fully capable of meeting the min. dps and heal checks.