Quote Originally Posted by Jinko View Post
To tank effectively on MRD you still require many of the GLD skill, at least if you wana do a good job.

I see no reason to parry when you have a shield, that being said they do need to increase either the frequency of how often gladiators block (give them a trait that increases block rating) or the percentage they mitigate when they do block (give them a skill that increases the amount of mitigation done when blocking)

Maybe they have something like this planned for Paladin, I can't see them adding a job specifically designed for tanking and not have skills in place to make them good at it, isn't the MRD job going to be DD ?
Actualy tanking on MRD the only GLD skill I "need" is Sentinel to perfom succesfully, whilst if I'm tanking on GLA I want more skills from MRD(warmonger, defender II, disorient II, Intimidation trait) set to tank efficiantly.

Heres the part I find illogical with the balance, as you say MRD(while theyre designed to be able to offtank as well) main pourpose is to DD, GLA is to tank, MRD is superior in both thoose aspects in almost all situations.
And while MRD can always easily slip into a DD role for a PT GLA can't realy perfom well as any other role then the tank.

Having both tried with STR builds and using the 5% block trait, they have done nothing for having any block procs on Ifrit.

For us to have to wait for 1.21 and the job system where GLA gets PLD to get a fix is imo unreasonable, playing an underperfoming class isnt fun at all.