Are you some sorta special kind of dumb? Let's just go ahead and tear at this quote and why you have no idea how to use PLD defensively.

Quote Originally Posted by Gserpent View Post
Completely against expectations, it's actually the defensive toolkit - whose changes I thought were going to be pretty much a no-brainer! - that has me flummoxed. Clemency is still effectively unusable outside of early prog. Sheltron is still tied to oath gauge, and oath gauge is still tied to autoswings, so PLD remains the only tank to lose *mitigation* during downtime. Wings still... exists. Divine Veil finally finished being turned into Shake It Off, only a few patches later than it should have been! But then they added an additional regen effect to Shake It Off, so Divine Veil is just categorically worse than Shake It Off.

This is presumably because wings still exists... even though wings is almost never usable outside of what amount to cutscenes. They should have just removed wings and made Divine Veil better. Or changed wings to be an instant-effect circle instead of an awkward cone. Or *something.*
So, yes, Clem is not very useful outside of prog, though it is very nice to have a means to heal not only yourself but other party members when paired up with less then competent healers (Which seems to be a running theme with how much every class seems to be getting simplified down). Now, I want you to name me ANY instance where there is a tank buster, or tank specific damage happening that needs mitigation, that happens during downtime phases, phases in which you need heavy miti to survive. Do you not know about wings tech? You do know you can *Flash* your wings for a moment to apply the damage reduction to the party during, oh I dunno, all the spicy raid wides that we have in the current (Abyssos) raid tier? (The big exception being second phase of P8S since tanks need to stand away from the party for autos or risk murdering them) You can easily help your party out with not only veil, but also wings to greatly reduce damage taken, or even spread the mitigation out so you have veil for when you are up front tanking, and a quick wings flash for when you are OT. So in practice, PLD can help mitigate more damage then the one WAR exclusive party wide mit that it has, Speaking of which, you do know that both tanks have reprisal and can use them on different attacks correct? One can even use it for busters while the other tank can use theirs for raid wide damage. Crazy thought I know.

So in a nutshell, removing wings is a terrible idea and you should really learn how to use the tools given in a class kit, or just play WAR and not have to work more then that one braincell you seem to struggle using to comprehend PLDs tool set.