Quote Originally Posted by Oizen View Post
Probably because WAR wasn't as far behind as PLD was, and PLD was behind further both in defense and offense
WAR felt pretty cruddy to me this tier. Its mitigations being healing and extra max HP has a lot less value against bleeds. Holmgang is completely useless because you need large burst heals at the very end of it to survive the last tick of the bleeds. Equilibrium for most of the fights isn't up often enough to act as reliable mitigation for the bleed and you need to waste at least 1 GCD on Nascent for its 20% mit so there goes some of the healing. Speaking of Nascent, because of the lack of mits you are required to have it available for every buster in order to make the bleed somewhat tolerable on your healers. I really enjoy the part of WAR that lets you help your healers with spot heals, I find that fun as someone who has been a Healer main most of the time they played this game.

I feel like a hinderance to my healers instead of a boon to them. And because of that I have moved to DRK. Not because of the DPS but because I actually feel like I'm kind of tanky now. I don't much care for the damage gain (I'm not super great at it so I only gain about 100-200 DPS over my WAR so far), I really just care about the feel of the class. And as a Tank, WAR just isn't feeling good with these bleeds

uh point in me saying this, while I don't have PLD all the way up and havent used it yet in this savage teir, I do know it has more % mitigations than WAR does and that makes its ability to handle bleeds a bit better. While also sporting pretty similar self healing.