I'm so very glad to have seen a couple people mention the gear instead of the abilities. The Pld JSE stuff is awful! same defense as cobalt, yes except the cuirass, but... that's only NQ COBALT. If you have a +1 set, which is now fairly easy to do, even single melded it is going to destroy Pld JSE in terms of damage mitigation. The Cobalt also offering a decent HP boost just from the boots with one HP materia in them alone. The new accessories do help Pld, what with the cure potency and mag crit jewelry, but that means you have to sacrifice some HP or +30 (say for tanking sake) Vit on your rings.... I like Pld, I can manage mp well enough i suppose... If it had a bit more damage mitigation then MP management would be much more, well.... managable. I do NOT think MP should be easy to keep up and i like needing support jobs to tank well with Pld, but for all my love of Pld, Gladiator is still the better tank. That said.... Warrior > Gladiator now.