Quote Originally Posted by DWolfwood View Post
You know, there's a few who keep saying that adding a new tank doesn't bring in new players to the role, which I absolutely refute, but if we humor that idea for a moment, then we gotta look at what the tank population enjoys. Completely disregarding SAM's place in the picture, I gotta say a RDM or BLU tank look boring, and will be the first tanks ever in an FF game that don't interest me. In XI, I leveled PLD, NIN, WAR (zerg tank), SAM (merit pt tank), MNK (Salvage tank), and was working on DRK (new zerg tank) before quitting.

I always level every tank, but a RDM/BLU tank just doesn't appeal to me. It needs to be said that being completely original doesn't mean interesting.
That is exactly the point. Why do you have to exclude other people with different tastes from tanking?
There is a lot of people that would rather play a mage and RDM could be the gateway to tanking for a lot of them.

RDM was a dope tank in FFXI at some point btw, the fast cast made RDM/NIN dodge like crazy. And it was godly at soloing.


Then let me make some other arguments for RDM.
Where would you place a RDM? As jack of all trades, it should have access to melee, white and black magic.
As a DPS? Melee Magic Caster sounds really interesting to me actually, but how would any healing fit in there? They can't really go and make a DPS that heals, just the targeting issues are too taxing for the general playerbase.
As a Healer? This would be even worse, having a healer in melee range seems really bad.
As a Tank they could use all of what makes them a Red Mage though, it fits in the role of the tank perfectly in that sense.

And what is RDM gonna do with it's Shield otherwise? Just for looks? :P


But i feel like there is no point anymore, it's obvious you only want more of the same stuff we already have.
To me that's just like the same car but a different color, sure, it might look nice. But it's gonna drive the same.

Having tanked for well over a decade myself considering ffxi.. Personally i'd welcome the variety, very much so.
I had actually written up a rdm tank concept myself here.


As for Samurai, I wonder how many people would pick Samurai if you asked for their opinion on the top 5 Damage Dealers across FF.
If SE does decide to make Samurai a tank, i hope they manage to come up with a fresh concept for tanking.
Still would like to see a Samurai tank concept that actually looks different from what we already got as well as fits it.