I'm thrilled about these updates. Only good things and it makes tanking a lot more feasible.

However, my question is if this will see people inviting PLDs more instead of holding out for WARs.

Spirit's Within was already a good attack when we had it. Now that we don't have to combo it to do it's full damage and it's cooldown has been cut in half, does this help bring us up to WAR tanking standards on single enemies? It can be combo'd for enmity now of course.

Divine Veil has more utility now that it can be stacked with WHM Regen and provides blocking for frontal attacks.

Cover is just as useful as it's always been and can now be used more often.

When the jobs were first being introduced, I viewed it as:

WAR tanks multiple trash mobs and can cut them down quickly.
PLD tanks single, hard hitting mobs while the DD break them down.

I'm hoping that these updates will see this happen now that PLD has a better damage option and damage mitigation options.