Defiance still lacking in comparison to Shield Oath

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The extra healing on defiance stacks was a welcome change but it still wasn't enough. Warriors are simply much harder to keep alive and are inferior main tanks as a result. Combined with the inferior defensive cooldowns of the Warrior, this just means that there's pretty much no reason to have your Warrior main tank anything unless more dumb mechanics like Ifrit stunning pop up.

The extra damage a warrior offers is nice, but the difference really isn't that much. For example I'm usually doing about 30% more damage than the gladiator tank when tanking adds on Garuda, and this is with dropping Defiance except when the adds spawn and dpsing practically uninterrupted including aoe on the adds. So the gladiator is tanking the boss with shield oath on, doing 20% less dmg, and I only deal 30% more? Having a tank that's just flat inferior at actually tanking but does a bit more damage is a really weird way of balancing.