Best SB Tank?

[Venjenz]

well thats if you are tankin in tank stance, the way it looks now is that bloodbath is gone, so if u are in deliverance you only have thrill as a self heal, and would have to be in tank stance to use equilibrium for the heal, and use inner beast. I consider the lost of bloodbath on warrior main tank as a major nerf for mt, I just dont feeel that rampart is gona do as much justice as bloodbath will. Pali on the other hand it seems that with clemency only cost about 1040 mp and yosi had 7080 mp so it seems that pali will have much better self healing than warrior moving forward

One, stances switch. I can tank in Deliverance and if I need a Defiance based CD, I swap to Defiance. You don't currently lose your stacks. Not sure how SB will deal with all that, but I doubt WAR are just getting straight nerfed on defense, while PLD are getting buffed on both offense and defense.

Two, until premade 8/24, most tanking occurs in tank stance, at least in the places where defensive CDs are needed, and then the switch mentioned above occurs. I do stance dance, but in the spots where I know defensive CDs will be needed, chances are good I'll already be in Defiance when the need arises. I'll grant that on those encounters where Deliverance can be used almost the entire time, the defensive stuff is way less, but those fights don't tax defense anyway.

Point being, WAR have plenty of defense if they want it.

[Atreides]

One, stances switch. I can tank in Deliverance and if I need a Defiance based CD, I swap to Defiance. You don't currently lose your stacks. Not sure how SB will deal with all that, but I doubt WAR are just getting straight nerfed on defense, while PLD are getting buffed on both offense and defense.

Two, until premade 8/24, most tanking occurs in tank stance, at least in the places where defensive CDs are needed, and then the switch mentioned above occurs. I do stance dance, but in the spots where I know defensive CDs will be needed, chances are good I'll already be in Defiance when the need arises. I'll grant that on those encounters where Deliverance can be used almost the entire time, the defensive stuff is way less, but those fights don't tax defense anyway.

Point being, WAR have plenty of defense if they want it.

In stormblood switching stances costs about half our current wrath.
You can see it in the job trailer when he switches, he goes from 80 to 40 so it's asumed it either costs half our gauge or fixed 40.

[Venjenz]

In stormblood switching stances costs about half our current wrath.
You can see it in the job trailer when he switches, he goes from 80 to 40 so it's asumed it either costs half our gauge or fixed 40.

Which means knowing the fight is at a higher premium, because there is a cost to stance dancing. Okie doke. Won't change the fact that in tank stance, there are defensive CDs aplenty.