Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
it wasn't because war was as good or better at all. it was because war was the SAFER option because a bad war is better than a bad pld(most pug's were pretty bad) so people went that route. if you dealt with most of the endgame shells at all though you will realize that the vast majority of them went with pld's because a high skilled pld is much better than a high skilled war. war has the higher starting point, but pld has the much higher ceiling.

it was the same thing with people wanting thm's in ifrit and wouldn't let blm's into the party on excalibur in a pug. it wasn't because thm's were better in that fight at all. it was because it was the safer option and it had more room for error. a blm would do vastly higher damage in that fight, but it had a higher chance to fail so people weren't willing to take that chance.
I went THM because I could raise the WHM or what have you..

Once my whole party wiped and I ran around the rink casting GLD defense spells with my monk feather/second - out of mp I had to just run around like a chicken - got enough to raise the WHM while Ifrit was doing his dashes. Unwiped my party XD

I was teh Uber.. lol. I can play BLM fine but even with skill THM is a good choice.

Just to comment on some peoples servers on Balmung PLD is a very popular end game boss tanker.