My off-class has been WAR for quite some time, but recently I leveled up PLD and now they share the same gear; I get they have different styles, but the more I play PLD, the more I started to doubt WAR. It didn't help that when I was still in T9 progression pug, someone else wanted to tank Nael as WAR and he was getting smashed. Hard. The guy just changed into PLD and we had way better progression.

I don't see a feasible logic for the 25% healing/HP vs a flat 20% mitigation especially since raids always have some kind of tank cruncher. Also, block not only procs more frequently than parry, it also mitigates more. WAR is literally a meat shield, with defensive capabilites that seem to be an after-thought than actual synergy to their class/job as a whole.

In a raid setting where precision is so important and there will always be inevitable raid-wide dmg, giving healers a high(er)-maintenance tank just makes their lives that much harder. And yes I DO POP CD'S when appropriate.