Quote Originally Posted by DoctorMog View Post
On it's own, using no skills?

I have no issue with it taking the same "general swing damage" as WAR.

Its skills are what make it unique,

I would like to see PLD get more "magic damage mitigation reduction skills"

it already has enough normal damage mitigation over WAR
I can agree with that. Being that magic-based attacks tend to be the most devastating kinds in XIV's boss battles, it can be singled out as the primary culprit in why the community has come to prefer WAR as a tank in virtually every scenario.

Something like magic evasion, however, is effected by dLv and furthermore not reliable as a form of damage mitigation. This is why I came to the conclusion that %-based damage mitigation, the only reliable, consistent form of mitigation against magical attacks from very high level, powerful enemies that I have seen, is the way to accomplish this.

Perhaps adding large overall elemental resistances to their armor would be a way to go, but even then I'm not sure if those effect astral/umbral/non-elemental magic damage.