Thinking of switching to PLD...

[Sephirah]

Looking at your characters I don't see a MRD leveled so you have ZERO idea what you are talking about. Also it wouldn't make them the same class PLD has way more mitigation CD's than a WAR does. We have ONE mitigation CD. It would still be different playstyles even with the 20% damage reduction given to both the only difference is BOTH would be viable instead of one.

Read http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ld-Oath/page11 I'd suggest the posts by myself, Kitra and Junk. The class is designed to be played in a different way, they don't mitigate damage the same way as a pld.

By your argument, if they gave a 20% mitigation buff to defiance, it would also be fair for them to give increased hp, health regen, and damage to paladin.

At this time they are both balanced to be viable in their own way, a pld won't be able to tank if they try to play like they are a war, and a war won't be able to tank if they try to play like a pld. Let them each be their own class and stop trying to make them homogenous.