Reasonable buff to war

[Capn_Goggles]

Fight fire with fire, or don't fight at all. Some people certainly have no qualms holding WAR accountable for the last 3 years of tank imbalance, to the point of now having to argue "why even bring a WAR". Even with this supposedly being the DRK expansion, the blame has been heaped on WAR because of the direction of DRK's re-work, instead of looking to the elephants in the room which are outshining both right now.

The only fight is the one people are inventing in their heads. If anyone considers a 2-3% difference between the absolute highest parsing tank and the absolute lowest parsing tank an "elephant in the room", then they are completely disconnected from reality, especially when each tank offers something that makes up for minor DPS differences. At this point, anybody clamoring for buffs or nerfs on X or Y tank is either ignorant of the hard data, or isn't even interested in balance in the first place and only cares about having their favorite be the best.

You mean the PLD that's been the best, most popular tank for all of Stormblood and the first raid tier of Shadowbringers? PLD could definitely use a few nerfs, more than GNB.

That's called revenge nerfing. How a job performed during the previous expansion, or even patch, is utterly irrelevant data when discussing CURRENT job performance. The numbers say that the DPS difference between the absolute maximum and absolute minimum is 2-3%, completely insignificant.