Pld buff or War nerf in 1.22?

[Frein]

Tank classes should be performing roughly the same, if only because it doesn't dilute your tank pool to niches where tank A is not good for certain content, but tank B is not good for other content and such. If a guy wants to gear their WAR as a tank, then by god they have the right to do so.

This is not much of a problem in a game where you can have multiple classes in one character. I would be perfectly fine with expanding the PLD niche by buffing its resistance to magical damage and thus making it the preferred tank where an overwhelming majority of incoming damage is magical in nature.

I don't think you'll want to touch WAR too much because I find it to be one of the most successfully designed classes. It really is the unstoppable force of destruction depicted in FFXIV lore without actually dominating multiple roles.

It doesn't have quite the damage output of other melee but its toughness lets it go all out much more safely and dominate groups of lesser foes. You don't want to bring a WAR for a purely focused DPS role but it's excellent when you need a combination of high AoE damage output and ability to survive focused fire from multiple enemies. It's similar to how the arms warrior performed in vanilla WoW and ToB: on single targets you would lose to squishier classes and fury warriors but your ability to cleave through groups of enemies was unmatched, yet you weren't nearly as good a main tank as a protection warrior (though I did once take over at Firemaw when the MT died and we still got the win). FFXIV doesn't actually have encounters where you need a completely defensively focused tank, however, so WAR is always preferred even if PLD defense was substantially better (which it isn't).