Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
WAR does a pretty solid Job of this as well, with WAR at 50 playing a lot like WAR at 90 does, just with 90 having more flourish and some more utility (I mean the core rotation; obviously Raw Intuition is a game changer...)
Maybe I'm being excessively technical but I don't really feel like this is true. The burst is a different shape (at 50 it's a DPS gain to put your third combo hit under Berserk instead of a third Inner Beast), you don't have your 'lol just burst whenever buffs go up' Inner Release button so you actually have to build to spend with your builder-spender, and the mitigation is far and away the *worst* of any tank's.

PLD is still the god of 50 MINE raid tanking (same as it ever was) but DRK and GNB are respectable too, with DRK lately getting an invuln that's tricky to maximize but excellent and GNB having extra mits and heals. Meanwhile WAR has less mits than every other tank and its "invuln" is extremely underpowered due to the empty healer kits. Sure, the WHM can Bene it at the last second or the AST can Synastry spam it, but, er, they can also just do that to any other, better tank. Oh, but WAR gets to pop Thrill of Battle for a Hi-Potion's worth of eHP. Yay.