Quote Originally Posted by Bigcatman View Post
That's why they gave us taunt, it allows us to have guaranteed hate for a small period of time to get our counter skills off. Battles don't really last too long anyway for us to make use of evasion skills in a group, but if you're interested in it you could grab war drum, pop presence of mind, deck yourself in evasion gear and see what happens lol. Unless they give MNK some hate tools, they're sending a clear message about our future as a class/job.

Besides, our high evasion and gear choices doesn't necessarily point towards tanking, SOMEONE has to have high evasion
Dunno, just don't agree - it would be far too coincidental. It would be pointless to have all these evasion attacks to use them only once in a blue moon when you can steal hate for a second with a taunt. Never mind the fact it would screw so very much up in the cohesion of the fight. I am speaking of longer fights (NM, Ogre, Ifrit, etc), btw.

That said it could just be in my head because I enjoyed tanking on pug. I still think its meant to be a quasi tank class - or should I say hope?