Healing a Paladin Tank, in my experience

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Great, so if I want to tank on Paladin I have to go get Sentinel and +HP melded gear out the ass and ditch AF because it's apparently worthless. Meanwhile any WAR off the street in full AF can tank anything. Ridiculous.

I would use it and form your own opinion about the AF gear. The main issue people have with the AF gear, it has lots of healing stats and less tanking stats. The fact that sentinel gear is green level gear that accepts materia makes it look bad, when really sentinel just an over powered drop.