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

[Amvin]

I've been reading this thread with great interest. I'm one of those "filthy casuals", a former disillusioned RDM main who turned DRG and will sometimes heal for fun. I'll level all my jobs but never touch any of the tanks anymore once they are at max level. The reason for that? I don't trust healers in duty finder. I have met many more cure 1 White Mages than I should and Esuna doesn't even seem to be on some healers' hotbars. So I just did not tank.

However, that changed recently when I was tired of waiting in queue and didn't feel like healing either. So I queued as a tank, WAR of course (based on how the jobs played while leveling, the other tanks except maybe PLD just aren't for me), and I had really fun. I'll keep doing it! It's easy, it's fun and that's all I want from it. And I think I'm surely not the only one, so perhaps that might be a reason for WAR being as strong as it is - to give super casual players a reason to at least give tanking a try? I don't know, but that is my theory. I'll leave the discussion about jobs in high end content to people who actually know what they are talking about.