Quote Originally Posted by Erakir View Post
As for Benison, I too am treating it like a free-ish tank heal every 30s or so. I've found it rather clunky to use when I'm actively trying to have a shield ready. It feels pretty weak right now and seems to disintegrate faster than stoneskin did....but that's probably just gear and leveling dungeons messing with my perception compared to running Exs at 60. Just having to train myself to remember to hit it at the moment.
The players in my Discord that are leveling tanks have noted that Defense ratings seem to get much higher than they have been in the past. I think the i273 tank body is +40 Def/MDef higher than the i270 body. If that trend remains true for the rest of SB there will be some pretty big defense gaps between a low ilvl and high ilvl tank and thus will need a lot more work to keep up with than before. Even the MCH I'm with mentioned a +30 Def increase going from i270 to i273.

I'd keep an eye on that for your own gear as well as you level and just see if your gear pieces take large leaps like that too as you get higher and higher.