Quote Originally Posted by Seriha View Post
Personally, tanking for an alliance was never a role I was particularly interested in as it meant yet another gear set and of course fighting with PLDs and NINs for the spot back in the day.
No different than fighting with the WHMs and SCHs today.

Like it or not, the whole "No Effect" side of enmity gain was pretty much an exploit, though.
"Exploit" is often an overused term that tell others that it's a bad thing. Everyone using Utsusemi as /nin is an exploit, as well as using capped evasion and +evasion gear to solo NMs is also an exploit. As far as I know, RDMs who wanted to tank HNMs needed awesome gear, shell out large amounts of money, and needed to prove themselves worthy of the task. If anything, abusing CE gains through enfeebling spells was the least exploitable out of anything, and even so, that doesn't mean it was bad.