Quote Originally Posted by Ciri_Wolf View Post
Exactly. FF's strengths have always been in it's diversity. The fact that people can only see tanks in fending gear is either a narrow viewpoint of the playerbase, or a narrow viewpoint of the development team.
Don't get me wrong, it would be interesting to add new armor sets for new jobs, but I'll stick by saying it would be an inconvenience for me because it would and that's just the truth, I like playing every tank possible (Again, this goes for a lot of tanks too) we would get over this with time. Although I still very much doubt SE will do this, as people believe SE are lazy, I believe they wouldn't do it because of people who play all the tank jobs wanting to gear them equally. The foundation has already been set though, like I said, but maybe we'll see some tanks use the current gears within the game besides Fending.

Although this goes to another point, they would have to have some crazy passives/toolkit if they wanted to tank in gear besides Fending and maybe a straight up change in the raid dmg to tank formula. Fending gear is a big chunk of mitigation alone, naturally. Its not a simple change of "add a new armor set/use a pre-existing armor set that isn't fending" That is where it gets slightly complicated. I'm willing to get impressed by SE though if you guys believe it.