How is late game tanking and breakdown of each?

[Abomination713]

Pld - used to be the least complex of all the tanks, at least in hw. while he is very straight forward, i think he got a bit more complex over the expansions. they changed him a lot with sb and it was not only needed, but also the changes were amazing. he is really well rounded and similar to gnb focuses more on sustain instead of pure burst. has the most party utility skills (party cd's) but he gives me the impression in dungeons that he lacks 1 personal defensive cd. other then that he is really great and fun to play.

While it is true that PLD have 1 less defensive CD compared to the other tanks (ironic since SE stole Rampart and gave it to everyone and PLD are suppose to be the def tank) we make up for it by having Sheltron which lets up block all damage for 6 seconds and you can do this every 16ish seconds which is great! However, in lower dungeons before the Sheltron upgrade, we do get screwed in the def department cause SE took away 4-5 def abilities this expansion. We should have at least kept Convalescene (Increases own HP recovery via healing magic by 20% for 20 seconds) considering that it's been with us since like level 6.