Whats Your Favorite Tank Class and Why?

Paladin for looks. Warrior for gameplay. Dark knight is my favorite overall simply because I prefer swords over axes and it draws from both. If warriors had swords there'd be no contest

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Originally Posted by Caj814

Pretty much a career WAR since FFXI and that transitioned to my decision when FFXIV relaunched. I'm glad that they shine so brightly right now in comparison to endgame FFXI where they were pretty much a versatile DPS within the gear/weapons loadout and skillchain system.

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That's more because the "Fending" line here in XIV actually has some kind of impact on your mitigation, unlike XI where wearing PLD-type gear didn't mean you were able to actually tank anything. Sentinel and Rampart were huge compared to Defender, so yeah, WAR was necessarily shifted out of the tank slot into a DPS slot.

Anyway, I've had a blast with DRK, and it's so much fun just dominating the threat table in both ST/AOE situations. Yeah, it's less durable than a PLD, I guess, but it's plenty durable to eat things that are a lot more hectic when I do them as a WAR.

Lol SAM ftw! But seriously? I used to main War, even went through all 3.0 content as War. But somehow...it lost its appeal to me with the added skills. War went from being a great MT to being the best OT, which is not what I enjoy playing as in the raid atmosphere.
I was really apprehensive about trying out DRK, but PLD was boring to me...so DRK it was. And I don't regret it one bit. DRK is so fast paced and is very hard to master, but man is it rewarding!

Warrior for me, I started as a war in beta and in launch and I'm still loving the class and it's aggressive playstyle. I do enjoy DRK when I play it (still leveling it atm), but the warrior will always be my #1. Also, DRKS definitely have the best looking AF2. I need to farm WoD (again) to get the Demon armor of fending to glamour for the war. :D