Quote Originally Posted by Ehayte View Post
I'm not saying its good as-is, but looking at how each tank tanks (I am leveling a WAR currently and starting to get the hang of how it works) it would seem that if they make the right fixes and the content is built right, there should be a significant and strategic advantage to using one tank or the other. I am pretty much just speculating and asking questions. I felt I needed to respond to this as you didn't really address my question, quoted me, and straw-manned by point. Sorry : D
I know what you were trying to point out. The problem is the DPS threshhold is so low for when a PLD overtakes a WAR in terms of "regular" mitigation, that if you go that low on a PLD the healers will have absolutely no problem healing a paladin in such a situation.

Basically I'm not saying a WAR is a BETTER tank in a situation with a generally low dps boss, but rather that it will be trivially easy to keep a Paladin tank up on such a low dps boss given the gear requirements of Coil in general. I'm sorry you felt I straw manned your post, but you basically posited a situation where healing the tank would be so trivial for either tank that it really wouldn't matter.

And that's the point. The only time a WAR is going to be better than a PLD is in a situation where damage on the tank is trivial, and if damage on the tank is trivial it doesn't matter which job is tanking it.