PLD vs WAR: testing

[DarthTaru]

I can reach your emnity level so know what gear you would be using and yet I'm have to use an offensive build with only 70-80 ish emnity to have a better hate generation and not complain about monks that be pulling of hate @mistress.

You, obtaining your emnity set, means nothing towards the quality of tanking.

I've had plenty of discussions about various Paladin gear builds over the course of the last month. What you're saying isn't some grand revelation that's big news. What I described were the results of one particular build that proved to be ineffective. Considering WAR DPS tank is not as effective as it was I highly doubt PLD would be although I have yet to try it in a situation that matters. Accuracy was not an issue with my enmity build. Dropping much of it for higher damage I suspect wouldn't produce the results that would be desirable for an MMO's main tank and my linkshell doesn't have gimpy pick-up-group MNKs and gimpy pick-up-group DPS.

I'm eager to see the results of different Paladin builds, along with the speed of the kill and the DPS of the DD's but until I see something that shows otherwise i'm going to remain under my initial impression that WAR remains a superior tank.

[KumaAkuma]

I've had plenty of discussions about various Paladin gear builds over the course of the last month. What you're saying isn't some grand revelation that's big news. What I described were the results of one particular build that proved to be ineffective. Considering WAR DPS tank is not as effective as it was I highly doubt PLD would be although I have yet to try it in a situation that matters. Accuracy was not an issue with my enmity build. Dropping much of it for higher damage I suspect wouldn't produce the results that would be desirable for an MMO's main tank and my linkshell doesn't have gimpy pick-up-group MNKs and gimpy pick-up-group DPS.

I'm eager to see the results of different Paladin builds, along with the speed of the kill and the DPS of the DD's but until I see something that shows otherwise i'm going to remain under my initial impression that WAR remains a superior tank.

I don't do pugs, our monks are geared too. You described a tank setup that's not optimal when it comes to hate for both War and Pld. I did not say go full DD setup and neglect your defenses, I said that people shouldn't go overboard the emnity gear, because using only emnity gear is not the way to gain good hate.

Plus you can't have a discussion about War vs Pld, make a bunch of arguements, and then take them back because the Pld build is supposedly too weak.