With the launch of Stormblood

[Shurrikhan]

I was thinking that they'll probably try to balance tanks as "OT" type and "MT" type, in which case adding samurai as a second "OT" type to compete with war would make sense, so we'll see raid groups bringing pld/drk + war/sam, but it seems like they are trying to avoid having that subclassification among tanks. It'll be interesting to see how they'll balance the three tanks so that any combination of two tanks is viable for raid progression.

I do prefer that they avoid sub-classifications unless they plan on going whole-hog with the idea that no two jobs provide quite the same functionality or "niche", but that latter idea would require that gearing, and possibly even leveling, were revised heavily to allow for easier job swapping, and even then you'd want to try to keep a sense of bringing the player, not just the class. Moreover, classes would feel a bit... fettered at best, dismembered at worst, if there was still a clear niche victor for each fight, such that one job always ends where the next begins, regardless of the actual range of their toolkits.

Maybe its time for all tank mains, to just.. not queue up for anything without a full pre-made of friends or FC members. Let the DPS wait in their two hour queue's and show SE that they've made a mistake.

That said, as a DPS I'll probably be doing my best to try to avoid the need for a tank anytime I and my friends don't have one in actual need for experience to rotate through (e.g. MSQing on tank/heals, and one of four friends each taking a healer or tank through 61-70 then swapping out while the two previous dps do the same). If SE hadn't gone out of their way to destroy their own toolkits and mechanics (removing most forms of CC), DPS could actually forgo tanks entirely for a time. So rather than pointing fingers at "entitled" DPS for having gained two jobs this coming expansion, let's first note that it took dungeon redesigns just to ensure tanks would remain in the loop even mitigation needs weren't so great as to actually require your presence...