Quote Originally Posted by Mavrias View Post
This wouldn't work for multiple reasons.

1) tanks share gear so your leather cloth armor with low defense idea wouldn't be possible

2) being a tank implies you'll be getting hit near constantly. taking damage interrupts casts. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
1) While this is agree-able, they could still make gear LOOK-LIKE cloth based. Look at the Fending set in The Sohm Al, which is very cloth-like, but still a fending set. NOTHING on that armor says it looks like it was meant for a tank class.

2) PLD Clemency says otherwise after the update to the ability in casting while being targeted or hit. This was a big complaint back in HW, so it was changed to be non interrupt-able unless stunned. Have used it many times in all dungeons till 70 on PLD so far because of how beautiful this is. So it's highly possible they can make it happen for a tank class. There's no way BLM could be on a class other than DRK, since DRK was a class that both functioned as a melee class and a caster class. While it was a DPS in most other titles, yes, it was still approach-able (this is mostly going off of someones post earlier). They could also make it instant, similar to ninja with their ability to wield ninjutsu to make the aforementioned spell effect. Highly possible and probable.

While most of us have some epic ideas that could really help build the realm to a better game we can hope for, the problem comes back to how much of the original FFXIV 1.0 coding is STILL in this game. The moment they implement something, they need to test and ensure something else doesn't break, as this has been the case in the past, and in past live letters and interviews. Until 1.0 is completely wiped from the game, we won't be seeing any possible BIG implementations or suggestion/feedback in the game as we'd like to. As a 1.0 player past, while some of it was enjoyable-- I want it completely wiped from this game, so we can progress.

1.0 coding is basically the PS3, and we need it gone to better pursue content we want in the game overall.