Quote Originally Posted by Gwaeron View Post
Heck, it's being done still. Is Sword Oath on PLD game breaking?
There's a big difference between Sword Oath and what you're suggesting for WAR. MRD already deals a lot more damage than GLA. Sword Oath is there to bridge the gap between non-tank PLD and non-tank WAR. If you want there to be some kind of DPS stance for WAR, fully expect WAR to get nerfed to justify the increase in functionality you're asking for.

As I'm pretty sure has already been said, WAR gets Defiance as a tank stance and has its DPS "stance" as its normal state; PLD has explicit stances for both and an inferior normal state. Hell, it's why Defiance has a bigger damage debuff than Shield Oath does: a stanceless WAR is going to deal more damage than a stanceless PLD so they *have* to debuff WAR more.