Quote Originally Posted by Sapphidia View Post
Yeah I think a lot of players do really enjoy it. You're never going to be able to please everyone though - I'd probably guess maybe 20% of dedicated tanks are kind of meh about the DPS focus over the tanking one.
I personally am a dedicated tank in every MMORPG, and I love the direction tanking is taking in FFXIV. I love the sensation of being more of a "hybrid" tank-DPS instead of just being a pure meatshield. I've been a meatshield for years and discovered tank-DPSing with Tera (as a Warrior there, awesome class) which I played a lot before FFXIV. Now I don't really want to become a meatshield again. Let me wreck the face of the one horrible big monster who is wrecking my face too. I don't carry a greatsword or an axe to just generate aggro and defend myself. I carry them to kill, to destroy. It increases the feeling of "dueling" with the boss that tanking always brings. It's awesome. The amount of manliness in this is just insane.