NINJA and ROGUE confirmed

[Grizzlebeard]

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While you're indeed correct about Monk tanking you're referring to a particular point in the game's life. Prior to that small blip Paladin and Ninja were the only viable tanks for endgame content and while both of those classes lost the limelight in WotG to some extent it was once again reprised in Abyssea where Monks didn't tank for squat. Additionally, Dancers were introduced and they were awesome across most content, ridiculously so.

[Danko]

While you're indeed correct about Monk tanking you're referring to a particular point in the game's life. Prior to that small blip Paladin and Ninja were the only viable tanks for endgame content and while both of those classes lost the limelight in WotG to some extent it was once again reprised in Abyssea where Monks didn't tank for squat. Additionally, Dancers were introduced and they were awesome across most content, ridiculously so.

MNKs were the primary tanks in Abyssea. Thieves too. Paladins didn't get invited.

Ninja's were used for procs only, so they would tank sometimes in lowman groups, but it was for procs, not because they were desired tanks.

But abyssea didn't have any content that *required* a tank. DPS hopped up on atma could hold hate better and kill faster than any tanks and there was nothing that could kill them with WHMs hopped up on atmas.