Good timed Aegis Blooms can mitigate a lot of damage. Like i was tanking the monk AF fight on paladin and i never go under 50% of my hp because i was focusing on time my Aegis with the MNK WS. PLD have better survivability overall than warrior. The problem i see is that PLD on long fight (like ifrit) is not really better that GLA since you could burst out almost all your mp in a few heals and had no way to recover it...

Ah also, yesterday i was tanking Ifrit on GLA and i notice that my Rage of Halone was missing a lot, before patch i usually hit all 5 attacks (and sometimes miss one) and now I'm hitting 2 of 5 (someones 1 or 3 if i get lucky) unless i use it with the combo. I really don't know if they raised ifrit's evade or just nerfed Rage accuracy...