Forum Top: Tank Roles

In a recent interview?? Yoshi P said they will be showing Paladin much needed love. And all hardcore players to decently well-informed tank players...

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Many places in the forums, in the game, on reddit and the net seem to blame tanks for many things. But is it because it's really a tank issue or is...

Anyone else worried there won't be enough tanks for heavenward and below content when Stormblood launches? With the introduction of new DPS jobs I'm...

Since the changes to VIT, tanks have so much HP that with proper CD use it's so easy to survive without tank stance, it's also easy, maybe less so...

While making a job "edgy" and likable aesthetically sounds like it works, we all know it wont be enough to get the average DPS player to stick with...

Question: How do YOU handle big pulls with lots of AoE with melee DDs in the group? So in my recent expert dungeon runs, because my healer keeps...

I've had this happen a couple of times, and it's really, really annoying: I'm main-tanking in Trial Roulette or something, and the off-tank is a...

So I got Drk up to 60 and I want to level a new tank. However I really like paladin and marauder. I believe paladin is at 32 and marauder is at 27,...

I have been playing paladin since 2.0. At first I felt it was the best tank due to the mitigation it offered. I really had the job down really well...

I'm not gonna lie. As a Paladin, it's one of the most distinctive parts of my tanking kit and with the cross-class system going away in 4.0, I'm...

Is it the new thing for tanks to wear 1 slaying ring that has Str? Just curious and does it make a difference in the dps department for us tanks?...