PLD vs WAR: testing

[KumaAkuma]

I honestly don't find an issue with PLD survivability. I have an issue with its hate.
We tested PLD against LULIfrit the other day. My friend who is geared well beyond the average BLM gave me until my second voke/flash rotation to begin nuking. After that, despite his best efforts, he couldn't pull hate off of me on PLD.
I've heard it's also a strong hate hold against Garuda although I myself haven't tested it yet.

Unfortunately, that is apparently where it ends.
In Aurum Vale WAR proved to still, despite its nerf, be a superior tank. PLD's damage mitigation was better than WAR against Coin but the fight took us much longer than it normally does.
Fast forward to Miser MNK burn, PLD seemed weak and I have about 185 enmity on my equipment for that fight (Heavy DL body, legs, triple meld enmity belt, jewelry, etc).
Our MNKs had to hold back a lot. I haven't a ton of experience on PLD so it's entirely possible I wasn't doing everything right although I feel like I was. Party ramparts, vokes, flashes, curagas, constant WS's, etc. Despite all this using a PLD tank here clearly gimped our DPS. WAR is clearly a weaker tank now than it was a few days ago but still superior when compared to PLD which continues to struggle IMO.

PLD tank can speed run Aurum Vale but I think between Coin and Miser it would take our group four to five minutes longer to accomplish than we do with me on WAR.
This opinion is based on only two tries as PLD, though, so others may have more experience using it.

Also, I wouldn't even bother using it on Cutters, Princess and Chimera.

You can't just use a bunch of enmity gear and think you're okay as tank. Emnity means nothing if you can't properly hit & attack.

[DarthTaru]

You can't just use a bunch of enmity gear and think you're okay as tank. Emnity means nothing if you can't properly hit & attack.

Hey, thanks for that. I really needed to be told. Clearly the fact that I have a good enmity build also means I have no idea WTF i'm doing and it all just ended up in my inventory one day by sheer magic.