Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

[MomomiMomi]

As a main healer on that game, people taking damage were not a burden. Actually, healing silly DRKs was about the only time I wasn't falling asleep. I mained SCH for most of my time on there (the last 5 years I played). Most of my healing was passive, or prevention. People taking damage was whatever.

I don't know how you did Xarcabard, but the way we did it, it didn't matter where you were standing. You were going to get hit by Hecatomb Wave. It's also a breath, so it's a joke at low HP. And it wasn't even dangerous at high HP. Most of the other enemies you mentioned were not commonly fought. You're talking exceptions and not the rule.

Overwhelm didn't exist when Zilart was current.

Yeah, because Trick Attack (TA) on a tank to help threat totally did not involve having to stand behind the tank to do it with the mob thus facing you. Also your argument fails on evasion related matters when you consider THF has Perfect Dodge and extremely high evasion skill (A+ rating if I recall right, whereas the tanks couldn't come close). So... THF was intentionally a tank? DRKs only risk was Soul Eater, which ate away at their HP and increased threat (multiple penalties for using it)... so increased threat = DRK tank too right? I can keep counter arguing with you all day, because nothing you say makes sense to anyone that actually knew what they were doing playing that game.

Side note: Don't speak on BRD. If your tank needed something specific from the rest of the group that was an AoE song, you needed to get in position to cast it so that it wouldn't hit anyone but the tank, which means you're going to likely be in front of the mob (though maybe not too close). Sometimes you wouldn't, sometimes you would. You've obviously never played it (well), so it's not surprising you wouldn't know.

An ability you could only use every 2 hours hardly makes a tank. SAM's stance, on the other hand, gave it a 100% guaranteed dodge, multiple hits in a row, with counters if you dodge with it, every 30 seconds. You could keep this stance up fulltime.

DRK also had hate generation on Last Resort. It also lowered your defense.

BRD's AoEs never required you to stand in danger. You could stand off to the side and hit only the tank. If you couldn't, maybe you were the bad BRD.