Quote Originally Posted by Lilseph View Post
In this age, PLD is an excellent support OT. Their DPS is not only higher on an OT spot, but they can support the MT and party members with cover and intervention. WAR is the prefered MT because they have a bursty aggro/DPS opener that allows them to keep the boss on them with no DPS-loss.
Basically this.

It is pretty much impossible to keep aggro in sword oath. So while you can still tank in shield oath. Groups that optimize for dps, will usually run the PLD as OT and the WAR as MT (at least in the current state of the game).