Quote Originally Posted by Saccharin View Post
It is that complicated. The current way classes and jobs interact prevent this. To give lancer - not dragoon - a tank stance would serve pointless as they aren't a tank at that class level and couldn't function as that. They could indeed have gladiator as a sub class but they wouldn't be able to have them as primary enmity generation tools since 'dragoon tanks', although not actual dragoons, would not have a way to replenish mana like riot blade. Warriors also have access to flash but it's not their primary AoE enmity generation tool, just an additional one.
I know this is hard but you need to use this thing called 'imagination'.


They can give the Job class a Riot-blade like ability.

Hell, they don't even need to do that. There is a like a thousand other ways they could do it.

Many MMOs these days have hybrid classes capable of doing various roles, depending on how they are specced. If freakin Arcanists can be both a healer or a DPS, there's no reason to insist Lancers could not be capable of tanking if a Job was created for them to be able to do so.