Warrior Material

[Frein]

No. Paladins are expected to tank.

Warriors are expected to be able to do whatever the situation calls for. Is there no one to tank? Warrior takes over. Is there already a Tank? Warrior piles on the damage gear, pops berserk and goes wild.

If you honestly think Berserk comes even close to making WAR as much of a DD as MNK or DRG is, you play with some amazingly bad people. Let's make the comparison to DRG, because it's mechanically more similar to WAR than MNK is:

WAR DD advantages:
- Berserk

DRG DD advantages:
- Power Surge (over time much more potent than Berserk)
- Better WS arsenal
- Jump
- Invigorate
- Blood for Blood
- Hawk's Eye

The only thing WAR has going for it is the ability to withstand blows with ease while dealing decent damage at the same time. This makes the job perform exceptionally well in encounters where that actually comes up in, which does not iclude things like Ifrit. I'd be pretty damn impressed if the best equipped DD WAR in the world could pull hate off me tanking Ifrit while wearing defensive gear with no +enmity.