Next Job/Jobs Speculation

[Kazrah]

Only concept that could differentiate tanking enough to me at this point to be appealing would be to include an evasion tank, and I'm not sure how well you could pull that off with this game's combat system.

Some form of periodic damage absorption is usually the go-to approach to mimic the mechanical effects of an evasion tank while having it nowhere near as broken as an actual evasion tank in any game.

[Dark-Saviour]

Some form of periodic damage absorption is usually the go-to approach to mimic the mechanical effects of an evasion tank while having it nowhere near as broken as an actual evasion tank in any game.

Yeah, but a stat-based evasion-tank isn't even particularly enjoyable either, so a facsimile is even less desirable. You would need a combat system where all of the attacks could be evaded by active player input, and mitigation is the closest you can do here without a massive change to encounters.

[Kazrah]

Yeah, but a stat-based evasion-tank isn't even particularly enjoyable either, so a facsimile is even less desirable. You would need a combat system where all of the attacks could be evaded by active player input, and mitigation is the closest you can do here without a massive change to encounters.

Oh, so in other words, you're basically asking for something completely broken and wouldn't make it in any balanced MMORPG, let alone FFXIV. Even games that do have dodge mechanics still have you being hit by normal attacks, so no, can't really help there.