Quote Originally Posted by Conna View Post
Your history with SE must not go back very far. SE also thought that in ffxi warrior made a good tank...this was false. They thought Ninja damage was really good...this was false. SE has been wrong quite a bit actually,and unfortunately it takes them some time to realize that they screw it and correct problems all the time.
When ffxi released there was no pld. WAR was the tank. WAR was an awesome tank pre 60. When NIN was released it was a DD, and with ninjitsu and shurikens it did pretty decent dmg. It was expensive for NIN to do proper DD, so it rarely happened. Players realized that blink tanking was pretty OP. And the NIN tank was born as well as breathing new life into WAR with NIN sub tanking. SE kinda embraced the NIN tank, But later content(even now) showed mobs that hit rapidly or did AoE to wipe shadows. NIN/WAR and WAR/NIN could still tank with a proper party. But, through all of this it is mitigation that made a Main Tank a Main Tank. Be it armor or shadows. Even still a great deal of end game content I was PLD/NIN. If it could hit through shadows or wipe shadows easily everyone would use a PLD. But, a PLD was not always the best choice. Hell, some content we used RDM as the main tank.

Suffice it to say it is far to early in the life of this game to say one thing over another. Also your comments about the Dev not knowing anything just proves your ignorance about the mechanics of this game. What was the intent of WAR in ffxiv, that is what people should be asking, not asking why their WAR can't tank Coils turn 5.

I don't really have much of anything to add to the OP point of this thread, but at least get your facts right about ffxi. I played it since the Level cap first jumped. Most likely you joined the game after most of the jobs had been released and NIN was already considered a tank by the community.