What should be the next tank job

[Xenosan]

Beastmaster as a tank.

Puppetmaster Mammeteer as a healer.

[Vallamaria]

Heck a Gunlance wielding Tank feels like it could maybe even possibly give the folks asking for a Gunblade wielding Job something similar to what they're looking for. Since there was no real chance of them giving us an actual Gunblade Job given the existence of MCH's covering the gun wielding aspect and the recent addition of RDM's covering the niche of a hybrid Ranged DPS with some melee mixed in.

[Mirch]

A tank that uses a bazooka

[Kaedan]

Blue Mage.

Yes, Blue Mage.

Definitely Blue Mage.

[DWolfwood]

Gunblade might be interesting, but I actually want a tank that wields a massive cannon. A bit tired of all the sword and magic.

[OcieKo]

Rocket Hammer and a Shield... Or any magitek blunt wep and a bigass shield, like a full tower shield not some tiny kite shield. Im cool with 2 bigass shields too, but seriously blunt weapon, itll passively buff monks utility while they're at it. Rhitahtyn and Grynewaht weps (just gag Grynewaht, no one wants to hear him speak). Gunlance could be fun, but DRGs dont need another passive utility buff since gunlan e would likely be peircing, and we definitely dont need another slash job.

Legionaire/Dancer 5.0 both blunt weapons.

[DWolfwood]

I know this isn't the place really, but I also REALLY want a Necromancer melee pet job that wields a scythe. It would be the inverse basically of RDM in that it had melee combos to build up heavy hitting magic attacks.

Would ideally want a skeleton pet, but I fear they'd be opposed to that because of the Chinese client.

[Steady]

Beastmaster. It was practically a tank job before.

[Vallamaria]

Surely folks asking for Beastmaster must know that even if they did ever implement such a Job it would be in name only. It wouldn't play a darn thing like Beastmasters in past FF titles. You wouldn't be getting to tame monsters to act as your pets in battle. Even if it had pets they would just be a very fixed small selection similar to Summoners with probably zero chance of glamours for them upon release. That and the fact that they can't seem to make pets with good AIs would probably make having one for a Tank Job pretty out of the question. So if they were to implement a Job called "Beastmaster" it probably wouldn't have an actual pet and would just maybe have monsters appear suddenly during attack animations before disappearing.

[Marxam]

Personally I would love to see SE make a Tank that uses a Gunlance.

I think the closest to that in FFXIV would be this dude from cape westwind.



I would love to see another tank have blocking in their tool kit so then we would have two tank who can block instead of one. They could also give BLU a shield but that seems boring to me. This guy seems way more interesting a concept for a tank and the assets are already in-game.