Lack of tanks in the game

[Zirael_Foxfire]

To be honest I feel they should just make all melee jobs tanks.

RDM, SAM, DRK tanking in FFXI used to be a lot of fun, for those that felt like going that route to have a change of pace. Hell, there was a time when even BRDs and WHMs tanked some endgame fights. And these days MNK/NIN is way more fun to play than PLD. Just saying! But that's FFXI.

Unfortunately, FFXIV job system and ability approach is too simplistic. It helps Devs keep the game balance the way they want it, but later in the road makes all jobs boring to play. Approach to skill trees like in Rift or even GW2 could've made game play more fluid.

[Dale]

RDM, SAM, DRK tanking in FFXI used to be a lot of fun, for those that felt like going that route to have a change of pace. Hell, there was a time when even BRDs and WHMs tanked some endgame fights. And these days MNK/NIN is way more fun to play than PLD. Just saying! But that's FFXI.

Unfortunately, FFXIV job system and ability approach is too simplistic. It helps Devs keep the game balance the way they want it, but later in the road makes all jobs boring to play. Approach to skill trees like in Rift or even GW2 could've made game play more fluid.

Point taken, but all they would have to do is add some kind of taunt move to monks and dragoons then beef up their defense some. That alone would help with the tank shortage on this game. Melee dps always seem to be at a disadvantage on MMORPGs anyway so it would also help alleviate that issue as well.

But I do agree with what you are saying. Over-balancing can ruin interesting gameplay. Not all of us are part of the min/max crowd and much prefer fun over being able to match everyone else exactly.