Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
Being an offtank does not mean you are an inferior tank
Yes, it does. That's pretty much the explicit definition of "off tank". It is inferior for anything where a tank is actually required and, as such, is only suited for those situations where you don't need a tank that can actually tank as effectively as possible. A DPS with a decent survivability CD can *easily* qualify as an "off tank" for any situation that is actually designed for an off tank rather than a second tank entirely.

You're *choosing* to interpret the assignation of "different" as "one is an off tank the other is an actual tank", which makes *no* sense. The devs have set up the game with 3 roles: tank, DPS, and heals. You don't see off DPS and off heals. When you queue up as a WAR, it says *tank*. You are forcing the creation of an entirely fictitious role upon the game so as to justify the current state of WARs being inferior to PAL in the single most important way that a tank is defined: mitigation.

By your own logic here, Summoners should have inferior DPS compared to every other DPS class because they bring some heals. You could make the same argument for Bards because they pack some +mp.

There *are* no fusion roles. That's the entire point of a game with a trinity: DPS is DPS, heals is heals, and tank is tank. Off tank only exists as an arbitrary justification rather than an explicit design concern, which is especially comical since you're claiming that the self heals that WARs pack is somehow more useful for them as an "off tank" because, you know, tanks (in groups) are well known for walking up to massive packs of adds without a healer. The issue of WAR self sufficiency only ever comes up when discussing soloing content; in any group context, it's pointless because self-sustainability means nothing.