Quote Originally Posted by Vagrua View Post
THF still has the most evasion of any job and is a crazy evasion tank. With an evasion set on, barely anything ever touches me while putting shadows back up and I've soloed a bunch on THF/NIN in/outside abyssea. I've held Ironclads while SMNs unloaded blood pacts on it while doing ochain trials and they hit me maybe 1/20 times with evasion set on. I wouldn't say THF is so terrible as you make it out to be.
The thing here is, inside abyssea, this really amounts to nothing.

Practically any DD/Tank + WHM combo with half a brain = invincible. It is also not really a feat of tanking to hold a mob while SMN's spam hate free blood pacts.

I would be all for this reasoning if SE would give us something to use for tanking, but they do not want us tanking. Our core DD abilities were designed not to be very useful when tanking, conspirator doesn't work on the current hate target, etc.

Yes THF can evade and survive, but I don't think anyone would use it as a "tank" if not for TH.