Originally Posted by
Saxon
For a tl;dr, possibly, PLD mitigates dmg better, and WAR self heals it back up. But the difference between the dmg PLD mitigates is a lot higher than the amount WAR self heals. WAR cooldowns are also a little lackluster, so for easy content WAR is perfectly acceptable, even possibly better due to more dps. But once you start getting into harder content, a "good" PLD will always be better due to the ability to mitigate the dmg taken, rather than eat it and heal it up afterwards.