What should be the next tank job

[Kaonis]

no new tank job, look at all the posts about the current 3 tanks, can you imagine 4

Pretty much this. As much as I would enjoy more flavor of tanks, there is a severe tanking issue on the devs part. And considering Yoshi-P's answers to VIT not getting AP added back in (because we would stack VIT and have inflated health somehow), or most recently with tenacity (They don't want us to stack our only tank substat, because of course not). I think its clear the devs don't have a tangible idea of how they want tanks to be implemented.

Until they resolve their issues with the current tanks, its a waste to try and balance a 4th job with a role that is poorly defined outside get threat, survive tank busters.

[Ogulbuk]

Until they resolve their issues with the current tanks, its a waste to try and balance a 4th job with a role that is poorly defined outside get threat, survive tank busters.

They already said tank accessories will start having STR in them. Look forward to that in tomorrow's patch.

Also: hop around the other forums. All role forums are seeing a lot of controversy over this or that.

[Jandor]

Blue Mage, with one handed spear and a shield. Capture magic in the shield, release it through the spear? I just want a BLU tank .

[DWolfwood]

I really don't want a BLU tank. It just seems too similar to what we already got and we only get tanks every 4 years at best. This next one could be our last tank job until 2023 at this rate. DPS can accommodate fan service jobs much better.

I just want the next tank job to be exceptional and unique. Enough so that it should tempt all tanks to want to switch to it based on its aesthetics alone.

[Eliroth-Kaminari]

I wish see 2 possible tank class.
1 hellberd using knight.
Or
Blunt weapon user like Warhammer or mace wilder

[Claire_Pendragon]

I really don't want a BLU tank. It just seems too similar to what we already got and we only get tanks every 4 years at best. This next one could be our last tank job until 2023 at this rate. DPS can accommodate fan service jobs much better.

I just want the next tank job to be exceptional and unique. Enough so that it should tempt all tanks to want to switch to it based on its aesthetics alone.

????

The name and aesthetic of a tank isnt the same as its mechanics.
Before MMO FFs;
Warriors (Knights with a dash of Berserker) never had Wrath stacks/Beast Gauge to work with.
Paladins (Knights with low tier white magic) never had oaths, and mitigations.
Dark Knights, this doesnt even need explained.

Simply learning a spell, and which spells fit which basic functions in BLU, doesnt actually tell you its playstyle mechanics.
It could have a job Gauge that is literaly Temp HP.
The higher it is, the more mitigation they have (or maybe less) and a portion of HP healed goes to it every heal or something. But they can use the gauge for certain actions, like their DPS stances.

Maybe they have the Damage MP mechanic of FFT, and use MP as temp HP instead, and their "gauge" is something else.

These mechanics can be given to literally ANY possible job, no matter what.
Even a WAR could have Damage MP, because they dont need MP, so they trained a way to waste it into the dmg they take.

While IM a 101% positive the Devs will find a way to mess up a new tank, that doesnt mean it cant exist, nor that it cant eventually be fixed/changed (and then broken again)

[Alistaire]

no new tank job, look at all the posts about the current 3 tanks, can you imagine 4

You say that as if they did any better balancing healers or dps.

If anything the fact that this expansion messed up levelling roulette so hard they had to hand out tier 6 materia means we're definitely getting a new tank in 5.0.

I'd like to see Dancer as a tank.

[Kabooa]

It better have a gunweapon or riot.

Just sayin', Gunhammers are pretty neat.

[IhzaMhaskova]

Well, my friends think I'm crazy for this but here it is....

A 100% pure tank with no weapons and two shields.

It would function through self/party defensive buffs and the main dps utility would be shield bashes, throws, etc.

[Kabooa]

Well, my friends think I'm crazy for this but here it is....

A 100% pure tank with no weapons and two shields.

It would function through self/party defensive buffs and the main dps utility would be shield bashes, throws, etc.

Fun as that would be to play, it better start at level 80. :P