PLD any better than WAR?

[RiceisNice]

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I don't believe that warrior is inferior to paladin in general, but again they both fall short on some areas. They can still perform the role, but one does better than the other in some aspects. Which is why I still think paladin makes for a better main tank in the long run because again, tank busters are far from the only aspect in a fight.

Even if you try to speak of effective hp, there's a matter of healing back up that hp, and the 20% increased healing intake does not exactly make up for the 25% increased hp pool ( or does the self healing because that doesn't occur all the time and it's really not the case if you're using IB for the damage mitigation). On top of that having a paladin OT is a lot more room for error because they don;t have a non-enmnity combo (where I can still rip aggro in sword oats, str accessories or not) and my options for snap aggro are a bit limited compared to a warrior.

I still believe that paladin makes for a better main tank for those reasons, but not necessarily not a better tank in general.

So the great debate of which FFXIV tank is better continues yet again. This will always be a endless debate with no ending, even more so when Dark Knight becomes playable. I have already chosen what tank class I prefer, but personally OP just play the tank that is most fun for you.

Also wanted to leave this here, since several people accidentally misinformed others about this skill. (Rage of Halone does 10% str debuff) not 5%. It gets traited to 10% at lvl40 on GLD.

There's nothing wrong with a civilized debate. No insults have been thrown (yet). I just jumped in after he said that foresight was better than rampart although that was cleared up. I play both tanks and in nearly all my setups (with the exception of T12), I'm delegated to either MT or OT respectively based on what class I am or who the other tank is, and in the end just works out better.