If You Were A Class/Job Designer...

[eagledorf]

Very well. How do you propose to bridge the gap in a way that is satisfactory for all levels of content without giving the debuff to PLD and DRK? It would be balanced for raiding if you gave it to just two, but that's outrageous to have only one tank not have self-reliant DPS and hate-generation. There is honestly no solution besides giving it to all three or taking it away from WAR.

I'm strongly opposed to taking it away from WAR because of the storm of re-balancing NIN that would follow. There are three tanks now and it's not acceptable for only one to have the ability to reach their full hate and DPS potential without the support of another job.

(Well, I mean it's conceivable to do it if you did like a massive overhaul of the tanks. Something extreme like making PLD damage and DRK damage magic or some other new damage type and increasing their DPS and hate so that the slashing debuff is neither necessary nor useful to them. That's just not realistic though unless they drop Dalamud again)