Quote Originally Posted by CGMidlander View Post
ADS is definitely magic only. Its autoattacks are lightning magic.

other stuff

The only relevant boss atm that is magic only (with the exception of a buster) is The Manipulator though.
This would explain why the black mage gets thwacked for 12k where the dragoon got thwacked for 14k.

Even so, we're presented with a flawed view of how to value mitigation in FF14. There's a fairly excellent thread that details FF14's overall approach to boss-to-tank interaction, which tends to be on scripted tank busters with only moderate-to-above-moderate auto attacks. This coupled with the fairly unexciting and mostly ineffective 'tank stat' scaling is why we see macho beef tanks. It simply isn't required to have 'great average mitigation', which this thread is pointing out.

in terms of tank buster mitigation, the tanks are all in the same ball park. It's skewed towards Dark Knight since they tend to be magic busters right now (Dark Mind op), but how quickly the tables turn if they were all physical busters.

Hell, you throw a 30 second physical tank buster onto a boss, and suddenly paladin is the only 'viable' choice as your second tank. This is completely discounting that any weaknesses in one tank's kit can be made up for with some utility from another raid member. (GG Apocastasis; You're a Dark Knight for 10 seconds every 3 minutes!)