Quote Originally Posted by Kirinichibon View Post
PLD doesn't but does have better single target damage and more mitigation skills.
Wrong on both counts.

WAR has noticeably more ST damage than PLD does; on the order of 10-15% more, in fact. PLD can get close when they're fighting a target under the WAR slashing resist debuff, but, even then, a WAR is still going to edge them out. Outside of tank stance, it gets closer, but WAR still has an advantage. The reason that Set most likely thought that PLD did more damage was because WAR actually has ramp up time (i.e. getting Maim and SE up), which is going to deflate WAR damage by a lot when you're bouncing from one target to the next and killing each of them in less than 10 seconds. Of course, if he's just spamming BB, it's self evident that he'd be doing more damage, but, at that point, he's not comparing a bad WAR against a good PLD, which is an unequal comparison.

As to mitigation skills, if you're talking the number of (effective) tank CDs, PLD and WAR have the same number of mitigation skills. PLD has HG, Rampart, Bulwark, Convalescence, Sentinel, and Foresight (6); WAR has Foresight, Holmgang, Convalescence, Vengeance, ToB, and Featherfoot (6). If you want to include anything that contributes mitigation, WAR actually has more because of Inner Beast. The difference between the mitigation abilities that PLD has and those that WAR has is that the WAR CDs are weaker but available much more often, which is a perfectly good trade-off (I actually prefer the lower CDs because I can actually *use* my CDs without ever worrying if I might need it more later).