Quote Originally Posted by Anyndel View Post
PLDs have to assume there's an alternative to PLD MT now and they aren't the best pick 100% of the time the same way the WAR have to assume they're gonna be OTing.
Avoiding a mechanic is also putting less strain on healers. Nowadays, the "less strain" is far too little to justify picking a PLD when compared to the DPS loss, since DPS is the most important aspect of endgame content.
WAR's mitigation is very close to PLD (Especially in magical fights), while their DPS as MT is much higher.

So, if you have WAR+PLD, you either chose to put the WAR as MT because he can do more DPS and you know you can manage all mechanics properly, or you put the PLD if you want to bypass some mechanics. And bypassing some mechanics would allow the PLD to DPS more too (Tempered Will already helps with that for knockbacks, in fact)