What kind of tank do you want in 4.0?

[ADVSS]

tank with gapcloser on gcd(mob jumping for fun_ an aoe provoke for when the healer lets you die in trash pulls, and one with synergy for many jobs, invuln down buff, magic invuln down buff. maybe a blink tank that can drop a shadow clone ala first boss of amdapor city hard, mothra which drops a doppleganger while you grab spawning adds. you know a fun tank to play, maybe?

[Joe_Schmoe]

What kind of tank do you want in 4.0?

A Swashbuckler tank comes to mind. Dual-wielding swords and focusing on evasion and parry. Maybe switching between 3 stances (full offense, full defense, and balanced) as well. The meat of their DPS could be provided via counterattacking (a la the warrior's Vengeance) and Double Slashing. Otherwise, I can't think of anything that hasn't already been done. Druid tanking maybe?

[LilLemay]

It's funny, the last time I suggested a casting-lock focused tank in this forum I was laughed out of the thread.

Alittle while ago I tossed around the idea of a sort of mind control tank, one that would grab one mob out of a group and make it fight for the party for a limited time, and the player could buff this mind controlled target to give them resistances and such, then I realized that only works in a situation where there's multiple enemies and you're kinda SoL whenever it's one guy

[Xenosan]

^If you never got to try FFXI in the glory years that's pretty much FFXI BST in a nutshell.

It was the only job that could solo to 75. By using that method of charming one set of mobs and sic'ing them on another set in a zone.

They eventually patched unique summonable pets for BST (Kinda like how SMN is now) so it could play in parties well too, but soon after there was PUP and they established TP burn parties, which made all DPS into gimp versions of WAR/NIN anyway.

Being a lvl75 BST back before all those changes was a real achievement. BST players were like unicorns. Can't help but wonder if SE can remember back that far, and if FFXIV does get a BST if they will give it that one of a kind flavor (unlikely)

[Reynhart]

A counterstance tank.
Think Swordmaster from Bravely Default.

[Syhrwyb]

I don't care what we get as long as it isn't another DRK situation.

[Shurrikhan]

Don't care as long as it uses neither fixed combos nor purely mitigation cooldowns and has a unique resource system or similar overarching or summative gameplay element.

That said, Samurai, Spellfencer, Sword Shaman, Swordsaint, Viking, Wildling, etc. all seem good candidates for that. Or a revised DRK... or a revised GLD/PLD...

[Khalithar]

Being a lvl75 BST back before all those changes was a real achievement. BST players were like unicorns. Can't help but wonder if SE can remember back that far, and if FFXIV does get a BST if they will give it that one of a kind flavor (unlikely)

I remember that, exping through a zone and occasionally looking out and seeing that lone beastmaster running off by himself in to parts of zones I dare not go by myself.

[Shurrikhan]

Just a thought:

Blue Mage as a mage trickster or tide-turner support / magic-physical coverting counter tank. (More in the D&D sense of blue magic; the actual monster abilities (apart from being able to take their essence and double it back upon one's attacker--sometimes with the same animations and effects as BLU does here--would go instead to Wildling.)

Thaumaturge melee i-frame / oppressor dps capable of tanking - Reaper (Yes, with a scythe, and shadowforms, where fire, ice, and lightning play into spectral magic while shadow magic and slashing damage hold the majority of actions) >.>

tldr; uniqueness and hybrids, please.

[CaedemSanguis]

We have a tank that dps (war), a tank who dont dps much (pld) and a magic tank between. May we can have a tank that can heal herself alone but who have a very low dps (beastmaster maybe) or we can have a tank who deals physical/magical damage and dps in exchange of life (for example the hallowed greed cost all hp-1, a cast how make 5000 damage cost 15k hp, etc...). Hum finally i dont have any idea about this shit xD