Quote Originally Posted by MagiusNecros View Post
What armor a class wears is pointless if the only thing that matters is base stats on each piece. With glamour it's actually even more skewed since you just take gear with the best stats and glamour something you like on it.
Uhm, a 60% decrease in def and 30% decrease in mdef in comparison to the other tanks is fairly significant (even if not completely visible). A 28% lower mdef was one of the major causes of Dragoon "floor tanking" in endgame prior to the the patch that brought Maiming gear mdef into parity with Striking/Scouting/Aiming gear.