Quote Originally Posted by YusiKha View Post
2-4% more dps than WAR. That's not enough to completely invalidate WAR's existence.



Rampart, Shelltron, and Sentinel. It has the worst mitigation out of all the tanks. Yes, it's enough, but that leaves you using only 1 CD per attack, and nothing to mitigate autos. Auto-attacks themselves aren't dangerous enough to need a cooldown, but you're straight up taking more damage than any other tank.

E1's shared busters, E2's shared busters, E3's shared busters, E4's tank-only stacks. Each fight has had at least one mechanic which targets both tanks simultaneously. Your extra cooldown means you don't need to save Raw Intuition for yourself, and can freely provide mitigation and healing to yourself and your ally. Not insignificant healing either. While DRK and GNB might have to choose between themselves or their cotank because Camo is crap, and Dark Mind doesn't work on physical.



Well it's a good thing that E1S' vuln only lasts for 30s (and comes after 2 double-busters), E2 doesn't have vulns, E3 is always hitting both of you, and E4's vuln lasts for a whopping 10s.
To answer the shared tankbuster point.... PLD has intevention... its better than WAR for shared tankbusters. You are mitigating more damage by sharing a single cooldown with muliplte targets.

PLD mitigation is perfectly fine by pairing a shelltron with a cooldown like you should be even with WAR. Finally the part about auto attacks... WHO COOLDOWNS AUTO ATTACKS? Healers throw a regen on you and heal you wen they need to... they are auto attacks. The only time you would ever need to just use a minor cooldown. I don't even think any WAR uses raw outside of tankbusters/buring for shake it off... most just instead self heal with Nascent which is why WAR again is good as a MT... but this tier has only one fight where there is a consistant MT which is 2. Yes, in 3 both tanks are taking damage so nascent is pretty good there... but WAR loses damage with Vengeance as its all magical, so they do no damage off of vengeance at all in Leviathan so they fall further behind all of the other tanks in dmaage more so on Leviathan.
The issue with WAR is always this : "Why bring in a WAR when I can bring in X tank?" PLD just better than WAR and more versitile. What WAR brings could be strong... but its not strong in the current environment.