Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
WAR is absolutely wayy over-tuned in terms of self, and party healing, but I do feel like PLD's power is mostly misplaced. I feel like instead of having high self healing, PLD should have stronger personal shielding, and mitigation. I feel like PLD shouldn't need to self heal because it shouldn't be taking damage in the first place -- it has a shield after all. I generally feel like PLD should have the best party utility of the tanks, but I feel like they should be more akin to being a protector as opposed to being a healer.
Every PLD player I have talked to tells me they want to be dead last in terms of damage output but get all the support tools under the sun, which I think is fair.

WAR is the main issue here because it doesn't pay for what it has. PLD loses damage with tools like Clemency and Passage, WAR doesn't.
Some tanks having superior support tools isn't a problem, the problem is when those tanks are also topping the dps charts. Then you get into "flat upgrade" territory, which is where WAR's design currently sits.