Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Yoshi has already stated that the very idea of NIN being a tank is completely and totally ludicrous. Anyone that knows the history of FFXI knows that the only reason that NIN was a tank was because the devs made a major design blunder by providing them with a mitigation ability that was *way* too strong and didn't notice their blunder until NIN was so entrenched as a tank within the metagame that they couldn't fix it. NIN was never intended to be a tank and has never been anything like a tank in any FF game before or after.
This is one big collusion of misquotes getting misquoted...
I believe the xiv related quote was that *blink* tanking wouldn't be viable in ffxivarr.
And in xi, the devs didn't anticipate ninja being so popular as a tank. That game was much more of a sandbox environment than anything these days. Ninja gear was packed with enmity and evasion...ninja had barely the second highest evasion in the game and utsusemi...what else were they supposed to do other than absorb some hits? XI devs did strange things compared to modern mmo devs.

I miss ffxi ninja, but I don't care if ninja is tank or dps in this game. I would really like to have A new tank - any new tank.