Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
The only tests I've seen (which Terabyte references) did not actually arrive at any real conclusion about the relative threat performance of Shield Oath to Sword Oath because they had issues with race playing some kind of factor wherein, with the same stats, whether they had Shield Oath or Sword Oath up, one of them continually pulled enmity. That's not evidence of superior enmity generation of one stance or the other. That's evidence of race playing some factor.
You didn't read his blog post close enough. No matter what the racial difference was there. But the fact is that the racial difference always went the same way whether he was in shield oath, or the lala was in shield oath, he always ended up with more enmity.

It may remain that there is something goofy with enmity going on, but one thing it does equivocally - it shows that sheild oath is not a 100% bonus to enmity, or even a 50% bonus to enmity as if it were the numbers would have always been in favor of the person using shield oath, and they weren't.

You're just so wrong about this whole enmity thing. There is no way a PLD in equivalent gear will not pull off of another tank if they are going all out in sword oath.

You're just relying on the age old "those tanks are bad!" without even testing it even remotely rigorously. That way if someone says they did try it you can return with either "you're just bad" or "they're just bad." Which is really a non-argument.