No Bright future for Melee Tanks in FFXIV the dark cycle continues since FFXI

I am looking for a new class to play, and I assumed Id be looking at a melee dps. Hmm, I never thought Id say this, because I think pet classes fail in general..... But I have to say I might reconsider in favor of Arcanist from the new info released. The summoner job could be nice as well. But I really want to play as Arcanist to be a debuffer w/ heavy DoTs.

Yeah, I'm getting really sore about kiting things like Miser or Chimer-- owait.

And to be fair, in addition to all the things you straight tank without kiting, anything you DO kite will need to be straight tanked at some point before it dies.

I can think of nothing you kite 100% until it dies.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

Which bosses are you talkling about? While there are a few bosses that are kitted (hamlet, moogle, some job quests), most bosses are straight tanked, including pretty much every dungeon boss, every other primal, every regular notorious monsters, the final boss, etc, etc.

Nowhere near as "bad" as you make it to be.

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Not to mention Utsusemi isn't even in the game. I don't mind if SE adds it back when they decide to add Assassin/Ninja, but I do feel like they need to be much more careful about it. Thankfully, with the armory system they can simply lock it in as an exclusive ability.

Or, they could have Ninjutsu use MP again like in FF5 so you can't spam it, or again change it to how Blink used to work back in FF2 I think (it raised evasion rather than simply absorbing hits).

Blood tanking is just fine in this game. SE was smart and made WAR strong enough to do it - they just need to give PLD better damage mitigation/hate spike ability (like damage reduction traits) to better distinguish it from WAR. I suspect that the new stat ratios they are planning well help in this regard as well, since PLD will be getting a big boost to healing ability from MND having a larger impact (and both jobs will benefit from VIT doing more).

tl;dr To the OP: chill out, Yoshida & Matsui know what they're doing.

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Originally Posted by mizukage

Why they cant let the Tanks actually tank the bosses and not just Kite them around like in SKY where tanks only can kite Kirin, and now same thing happens for FFXIV bosses

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Because this isnt FFXI Klaus....

I'm sad that most people still can't spot a troll post when they see one on this forum.