Changes that war need?

[Aurida]

-war and drk have both the lowest damage (difference is really small compared to gnb and pld but still)

Someone has to be, right? By your own admission they're only a hair's length away from being the same and perfectly balanced so let's hope they keep striving for that.

their defensive kit doesn't really make up for that

Does it not? Having the best invuln in the game, plus on-demand self and targeted healing with little to no opportunity cost through Nascent isn't enough? Using that thing before Inner Chaos/Fell Cleave or Inner Release gives you like 50k~60k self healing on a good day, which is orders of magnitude higher than any other tank's sustain with, and I stress this, no personal loss whatsoever.

kill time has a too big impact on war's dps (hits like a wet noodle outside of Inner release): you can lose around 200 dps just because you killed the boss 20s before your next IR for example.

Who cares? We're talking about a situation in which you killed the boss, meaning the job performs perfectly well at the only thing that matters: killing the boss while not being killed by it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed HW WAR and having to manage resources in order to move into and execute a highly damaging Berserk window. I'd love if Nascent could be used on yourself like Dragoon's tether. I'd love if DRK didn't steal our burst phase. I'd love it if we went back to dealing 75% of a DPS' overall damage instead of 60%. I'd even love it if Holmgang went back to 6s duration at a 3m CD.

But ignoring that it's an incomparable machine of a tank, with defensive utility which the other tanks can't pretend to compete with, just because it's not the best on a leaderboard website in one possible metric? WAR has been top dog for literally the entire last 5 years, the overall tank balance is closer now than it's ever been, and still we get complaint threads every week that it's not the god-class. What do you want?