After 1 (arguably 2) expansions what is square trying to achieve with WAR (and PLD)?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Here's a radical idea. I think they should bring back the Physical and Magic split for tanks.

Make PLD and WAR the Physical damage tanks, GNB and DRK the Magic damage tanks.
PLD and GNB can be the mitigation based tanks, WAR and DRK can be self heal based tanks.

This would also help give all 4 of the tanks a little bit of their own identity.

Ok so GNB in current game design would be full-time meta though. Mitigation is king unless the sustain is beyond ridiculous and most relevant damage is magical most of the time so at least 70% of the time you will run GNB-DRK.

There is a reason why we don't go heavy on those splits, as was perfectly evident on PLD vs DRK in Heavensward.