How would you like certain items to be changed?

[abela]

Legion and ADL an intelligent RDM will not be meleeing in anyways, voiding those options. NNI you can stack on a ton of PDT with Phalanx and easily counter any damage incoming except from bosses, of which you are likely going to be able to tank with a mix of shadows and stoneskin crossed with PDT if need be. VW has no tank, and you are stocked with Fanatics and Fools at all times anyways unless procs stop for some reason, meaning tanking is easy for any and all jobs. Please remind me how anything you brought up is a point against what I said?

Ill restate, I'm fine with gaining enmity from Excalibur's additional effect on my RDM, it would help PLD alot with making Excalibur a more potent option.

If you are a Rdm in VW you are doing T2-T4 and Helixes. Hasting and curing IF necessary. Your dmg input during a VW doesn't add up to much. NNI RDM tanking I would drop party right there and never go back. That is a time based event and what does RDM not do so well? Dmg. You take time to kill things, so again. No.
And especially with the new update with Def and all getting a boost. The players will receive that AS WELL AS the mobs. More def on a mob means that Rdm that was doing this much dmg before is now doing much less. Even when this much dmg isn't that much to begin with.
I think that is a bit more of a clarification for you.

And PDT gear is everywhere. If I threw on a ton of PDT on my Drg, would that make it a tank too? I could /rdn throw up shadows, stoneskin, phalanx and what have yous too. So does that make me a tank? Anyone with PDT gear and the ability to do that as well? That would make everyone a tank, right?
No. Just because you can doesn't mean you are.