Quote Originally Posted by chidarake View Post
although I kinda agree with you here I don't think either tank role is really newb friendly at 50... before that your learning the ropes so who cares. post that you better know how to handle yourself and know the instances because otherwise dps and heals are going to be pulling from you constantly.

war's have to know there skills to be able to fully mitigate properly however even they have insta cd's that help out just as much as pld has them.

I don't play war much past getting it to 50 but I know I can pick it up and play it in dungeons and hold the hate ok but not as well as I can on pld since ive used that since day one. the biggest reason I know this is because I know the instances and skills on pld where as im not solid on skill knowledge and how they work on war but once there learned its no harder to play war

I think you overstate the complexity of tanking by a fair amount.

Both PLDs and WARs should not have a problem maintaining aggro. Flash/Overpower 3x and you're guarenteed to have aggro unless the DPS vastly outgear you.

The difficulty in WAR comes in appropriately keeping Maim/Storm's up, not overspending your TP, and using your Infuriate on the right moves in preparation for incoming damage.
PLD is very much passive in its mitigation, and only has 1 combo, and no buffs to maintain. Reactively using Shield Swipe does not really account for much skill, unless it's used on a mob at the right time to stop a weaponskill or something. Using Cover is pretty much a "Use on the WHM or BLM" thing, too.

PLD and WAR both have differing skillsets, but WAR is more complicated to play than PLD in measurable ways.