Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
Oh, I know it would be quite a feat if it were done. My initial point was basically that while SE clearly sees MNK as a tank (Almost every single gift enhances the job's defensive capabilities), and it does get kinda close on paper, in reality it's just plain not feasible due to some of the same reasons you need a RME PLD or RUN.

I would LOVE to tank on it, I love MNK and counterattacks are my preferred thing to focus on in most games, but I really don't see it being possible except in the kind of content people breeze through solo.

Basically, I feel that the current endgame that demands an Aegis for tanks likewise restricts what other tanks are possible.
So part of my suggestions were really based on the premise that aegis is not a requirement, but the amount of prep that you would have to do you might as well build an aegis because its easier on the whole party. Aegis is not hard to make I don't know why there is such and aversion to making something so beneficial. Take for example what I suggested getting the souveran +1 set for pld, its going to cost you in the ballpark of 300mil. You could make several aegis with that much gil.

When I started playing mnk more when delve came out because I couldn't get into any parties as pld(delve1) I also noticed its tanking potential. I agree that it did mnk a disservice the gifts that it got. Maybe they felt that mnks offensive capabilities were already really good and that to not make it too powerful they had to give it something so they decided to do defensive. You have sparked my interest in mnk tanking though and im going to look into it more might be able to come up with some good suggestions.