Tank Balance

[Anyndel]

I'm honestly surprised how people is obsessed with minmaxing in this game, specially with tanks and healers doing dps... Unless your party is behind on damage for the fight, which then is the DPSs fault, the tank shouldn't have anything to do with it.
I understand people wanting to maximize their dps as a warrior since you can deal some serious damage that can be compared to the dps jobs and also increase your self healing on doing so since the job's motto is more like "kill it fast before it hurts you", but stuff like people used to do like determination on PLD shield for almost no dps increase at all, why? you can perfectly clear stuff by playing normally and I would take parry over determination anytime when tanking (and yeah, I do know the "if you have block parry loses value" but still almost no parry gain > almost no dps gain).

I always end up getting into the discussion of "WAR can't do this" or "PLD can't do that" like the "WAR can't MT T9" but then you have a video of people 4manning it with a WAR tanking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbYYx7_G3NM).

I think tanks are just fine and people is just picking on numbers, the only thing I see lacking is the PLD aggro/enmity and I do think it should get a buff, even since I started playing. Still got a lot to see about DRKs since they're still kinda new but I don't think PLD is so bad outside of the enmity, it has less dps and higher mitigation like it always did and is still picked as the standard MT. Don't get so caught on numbers and just enjoy your class, unless it's completely broken and unplayable; hardcore players gonna love their numbers and nitpick on taking this or that tank based on this or that minimal benefit but if you're so hardcore just go and change class instead of crying bout it, you can have all of them in a single character and each one of them is obviously best at something.