Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
It could also simply mean the fight was a bit beyond your ability as a PLD. (I don't mean for that to sound rude or disrespectful. It's been stated that it's harder to play PLD than WAR, and I feel this is an example of that. Because you could do it on WAR but not PLD doesn't necessarily mean the job is imbalanced. You could simply just play WAR better.)

PLD tanking BLM Final Fight

I apologize in advance for the poor quality of the video. FFXIV doesn't run very smoothly when I set fraps to full.
That video just goes to show how PLD has nothing special over WAR. All you did is use your hate/defensive abilities whenever you could, and did some DPS. I think you used cure once, maybe twice that entire fight.

The only reasons Enfarious probably couldn't tank on PLD were either:

A) Their BLMs pulled hate from doing more damage than yours did, or

B) They/their WHM's were slow on cure and PLDs lower HP pool failed them, or

C) Their BLMs failed and adds got up to the PLD, used some AoE, and wiped them

If those cases were true, WAR was better because they can generate more Enmity (through DPS and Abilities), have Higher HP, and could -technically- help with adds using Cyclone.