Tanks that think they are DPS, just stop...

[Falar]

it's only not working to people that feel tanks should have to be a bigger portion of a groups dps. Square enix disagrees the direction they are pushing tanks and healers is away from that mentality. This games community has always been polarized really strangely around this issue. I personally feel tanks and healers shouldn't be a major contributer to the groups damage output and should have more focus on utility based damage for the dps members like ast sits atm.

It's both more accessible for newer players and gives more common ground for encounter balance. (where things like double warriors in HW were essentially adding 2 dps trivialising some content thus becoming required in the communities eyes)

It is because it is a bait and switch.

I play FFXIV because it is the best FF game in years, the 32-bit era, IMO.

I play it in SPITE of it being an MMO. One of the things I liked about the game when playing was though it uses the same old tired, outdated, cookie-cutter "trinity system" it wasn't so rigid as usual (I broke my no MMO rule for the first time a few years ago in another game--tank DPS was a joke and boring to play) and I found tanking in this game to be very enjoyable---I could just play whatever class I liked and not worry about the role. I only play melee, and typically sword users but I had all the melee classes at 60 in HW except Monk and Warrior. Dark Knight became far and away my favorite class (switched from Paladin after getting to Ishgard) and I came to really enjoy tanking in this game. Unlike the other MMORPG I played I could actually do more than just hold aggro--if played well you could do meaningful damage and things in Solo mode did not take 15m to kill.

However, it seems the "MMO chasers" that play this game keep trying to make it less Final Fantasy and more XYZmmorpg and now SE is listening to these people by ruining tanks. On this course, I will probably just abandon this game like I have done others that patch themselves into states that I do not enjoy.