Boycotting Warrior 4.0 (Let's do it!)

[Reynhart]

But do you mind if I ask why you'd consider going solo tank from the start, since you never knew if they'd put some mechanics that require two tanks?

Basically, our other tank didn't really like tanking and she heard that solo-tank was doable

Let's say we assume there's a super tanky job that allows solo tank composition, then it'll either be the one optimal composition or not.

Not necessarily. You can have different setup that will bring the same overall DPS, just not split the same way. And no, 1% is not enough to point a clear optimal setup, since there is always a random part in fights, and you also need to consider player skill. Frankly, if turtle tanking, or PLD as a whole, did only 1% less than the stance-dancing or bringing WAR+DRK, we wouldn't even have this conversation

I don't know how it is in your server but in mine most people won't really mind you turtle tanking in savage raids, especially since the standard strats revolve around having a main tank who keeps the boss all the time, except if there's a forced tank swap. Yes it's not optimal, but most likely so is everyone else in your group.

In my static, we were criticized for not skipping phases while learning the fight...yeah, not the best experience.

The optimum, by definition, is a single thing.

No, the optimum is a single result, not a single formula. It's like the total is right

Like I get that you apparently don't like how raid tanking works in FFXIV, but it's been this way for like four years now. Maybe you just don't like tanking in FFXIV.

Not, it's been like that for two years. Exactly because you could do solo tank strats in Coil even during progression, where the tank stance is pretty much required (Unless you overgear stuff), and because, lots of fights in ARR were more mechanic-based than DPS based.