Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
Which in turn probably goes back to them saying in FFXI they wanted it to be a tank, despite how much that concept failed.
Considering that to be tank in FFXI, you just needed /WAR and a slight means of mitigating incoming attacks, SAM could have been a tank.
If some people wouldn't have been ridiculously blind of how NIN would be played with a spell that completely negates one attack...