Which Tank is Better Off MT?

[ArdorGrey]

Because a fight is mostly physical damage, and PLDs are far better suited to mitigating physical damage. Like I said in my original post, it is highly dependent on the fight. Just because you lost damage and utility as OT doesn't automatically make DRK a better MT than PLD.

Edit: The real answer is that you should never run a DRK/PLD combo and the tank meta sucks.

Iunno. The idea of an "MT" and "OT" period is kinda stupid. Everything goes smoother when tanks share uptime-assuming healers aren't stupid, but they usually are.

That aside, plds can bring some decent hurt in OT stance(I'd be curious in serious mathers revisiting the 2.x revelation that war MT/pld OT was actually higher dps than the opposite) and have way more OT utility than drk. The only advantage of bringing drk as ot or mt is only damage over pld, and a little bit from riposte when MTing.

Some of the most DF fun I've had is OTing as pld and using cover in abusive situations and stoneskinning during downtime breathers. I used to occasionally see OT plds that did stuff like this in 2.x(and these few awesome souls are actually what inspired me to level pld in 3.x), but since 3.x plds are 100% in the already popular "I HAZ SHIELD SO MAEK WAY FOR OBVERUS MT!" camp. Even your entire argument for pld MT ignores the fact that pld can throw cover on the MT while OTing and thus add their own formidable physical defense on top of the other tanks already more than plentiful physical mitigation. Drk OT is just a jankey dps. :/