Quote Originally Posted by Reokotsae View Post
How I see tanks in ff14 is that the original purpose of dps stance was more for singular questing and existing in the overworld and not taking an hour to kill a mob
It was the case at 2.0 launch where stance dancing wasn't really so popular. Mostly a practice from top raiders but it wasn't really the norm.
In 3.0, the meta evolved into a more dps centric gameplay, both due to the harsh dps checks in gordias and organically from the class design (having more dps oriented actions).
And really it's not a bad thing, it does make the tank role more exciting but created a pretty big gap in player skills.