Quote Originally Posted by ADVSS View Post
well if given tank role, it will definitely have melee as its larger focus...and then it will have to have alot of its skillset eaten by repeat abilities needed for a tank, kind of limits the whole spell list to maybe about what drk has currently
it doesn't have to, we're only stuck in that mindset because all the existing ones do it. maybe trying to make it not have to is what will make the job different from all the other tanks.

and limited spell list is no big deal, BLM might have a bigger list but the 2.x rotation is more than 50% Fire 1 and the 3.x rotation is still dominated by Fire IV. SMN is supposed to be a casting job and it only has 4 main spells none of which has to do with summoning.