Paladin misunderstanding.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm still not convinced this is the best tank, in the sense of being a tank, rather than being a support class. I also think it is the most advanced job to use well. Since a lot of it's mitigation requires a lot of thought and knowledge of fights and reacting fast to whoever is going to take damage. It's decisions to heal too. Ultimately not the tanking class for me. I prefer self mitigation above all else. I love the GNB even if a bit squishy, but it has good self mitigation cds and streamlined group support that is easy to use, so you can just focus on tanking.

All the same, thank you for everyones feedback. It's a nice community here.

You understand that PLD and GNB have nearly identical cooldowns, yes? The only significant difference is that GNB has Camouflage while PLD has no similar CD. Other than that, however, the rest of their personal mitigation kit is practically identical.

Nebula = Sentinel
Rampart = Rampart
Heart of Stone = Sheltron (just weaker than Sheltron)
Reprisal = Reprisal
Arm's Length = Arm's Length

The only functional major difference here is that GNB has Aurora, while PLD has instead passive block chance.

On another note, every tank requires fight knowledge to make proper use of their cooldowns. You can't use a cooldown properly if you don't know what any of the boss's abilities do; regardless of which tank you're on.