Don't laugh at me, but I've been soloing that damn U'ghamaro Ashman for ages to get the mercenary's leggings just because I want to. Before the patch, soloing as a WAR was completely a peice of cake, just took a while to take him down. PLD never lasted as long and sometimes died.

After patch, I'm finding PLD stands and equal chance, and a lot of the time my HP never falls below 1200 unless I get an add. I can also heal myself for over 1k. Can't wait till people realize having a PLD can have parties replace that extra WHM for a DD