New Tank Class

A suggestion or a wishful idea.

Think about a Tank Job/Class that is a Disciple of Magic. Yes. It's a "WHOA?!" Factor.
There are lots of variations that could happen to this new breed of tank. I would play it and master it because this will stand out and it will be the first time (subjective) that it will happen in all of the MMORPGs.

A mage that specializes in defensive spells or summoning an armor to mitigate damage. Think of Gaara in Naruto anime. Would be so cool.

If you feel it too. Please add your ideas below!

CNJ could evolve into a battlemage sort of tank. I don't see any reason why we can't have chainmail tanks - and caster classes could conceivably wear chainmail and augment their light armor with protective spells of some sort. Clerics in rift were such tanks.

I would kill for a true Whinja. Shield and hammer, chainmail and an assortment of white magic spells. It would add some depth to the game for sure. I like warriors and paladins as much as the next, but I agree that these archtypes could use a break and some fresh ideas about tanking could be introduced.

I mean, look at how Dancer over in XI worked out. Everyone and their mother thought that class was going to be support, was going to sub WHM, was going to be the worst thing SE ever did.

Then people played the job. I believe SE could do the same thing here with a non-plate armor tank.

Honestly, I've seen the "cleric tank" thing before. In fact, I know of a game where clerics are the de facto tanks and warriors are actually dps/support classes. Platemail, high defense, healing spells... it makes them pretty overpowered.

They move as slow as a damn turtle, though. xD

Maybe we will see the Blue Mage as a tank class one day, but they could pretty much fit any role.

id rather see a buster sword tank that could use the big ass buster sword to defend peope. buster sword had lots of materia so make the leveling be adding materia to buster sword, lvl 5 1 mat, lvl 10 2 mat ets, use materia when not using sword. maybe he could throw it in the air and it can land to cover a party member cause its so big they can hide behind it. maybe instead of just damage combos he could have a defensive combo with the sword like pommel smash to stop by throwing off say the targets next attack with a chance to miss, wild swing that can throw off the targets attack or stagger him for an attack then a block att thats the combo, time it kinda like ib and he swings sword sideways and blocks a % of att. maybe he could even have a kind of hold attack where he could do two attacks to charge a third that turns ocd so he can defend with it on the fly so it limits his attack if he doesnt use it but its a charged ocd if he uses it to defend. then maybe he can have sword oath and hand oath where when ot he could leave his sword as a giant shield and use either other atts from diferent disciplines or combo attacks with other players

id give him moves
pommel smash, punch target in the face with sword swing
wild swing, combos pommel smash he haymakers buster sword to throw off opponent
flat of the blade, combos wild swing, ocd att where he hits enemy with the flat of buster sword, holds charge till used
charge, combos wild swing, he barrels in with a lot of fast sword atts, uses charge good damage

hand moves
lightning
earth
fire
etc

id give hims some buffs
when the going gets tough, raises block rate with buster sword and gives an attack like shield swipe for duration
ride the edge, his block rate drops from not using his sword as much for blocking but raises attack strength
black hawk down, he crouchs behind sword blocking 80% of atts and raising healing 80% for 3 seconds with a wait like hg so its a one hit heal

and the whole time hes targetted by a boss the sound track changes to led zeppelin