Are FFXIV tanks just players who "couldn't hack it as a DPS"?

[Aana]

That just hurts on the inside to read

[Elkanah]

Are you? Because most of the times I do more DPS than dps

The sad thing is I've also been doing this on warrior with 6+ fell cleaves, and I actually laugh at how bad DPS are in this game still in stormblood.

[EaMett]

Playing one that trends away from your personal strengths is makes it harder. They are just different.

So true. On healer I can heal comfortably, dps, keep an eye on boss casts, keep track of tank buffs, do mechanics, make calls on voice and rescue players quite decently. But when I'm on my dps I tunnel vision so bad I can't even keep track of the basic boss casts/mechanics let alone follow what other players are up to. And I'm not even doing good dps despite getting healed through all the mechanics xD sigh.

[FPZ]

Please don't be a dps oriented tank that AVOIDS popping cds while in dps stance. Please don't just pop a cd for tank busters. You can use them between tank busters. If youre a good tank you will do high damage with high mitigation. Please support the party with your tool kit. Popping ogcds between weapon skills, will not lower your dps.

Thank you.

I hope you replaced this guy, this is a good example of a bad tank. Any group worth their salt would get rid of a guy like this and yes, your PLD should be using cool downs as off-tank, dummy.

[aleph_null]

That's just painful to read as someone who plays pld. Cover and intervention are really good in o1s. If you prepare 100 gauge before twinbolt you can pop rampart or sentinel, then sheltron and intervention for big mitigation on yourself and 20/30% extra mitigation on the main tank. Cover and rampart trivialize back to back wyrm tail dmg, and in some cases (at pull, and after first blaze) rampart lasts through the 2 wyrm tails and the following twinbolt.

[Canadane]

Are you? Because most of the times I do more DPS than dps

Same. At least in non-savage lol.
I usually throw out a /congratulate to any dps that outparses me on my warrior. Even with four DPS it's usually only one or two...

[MahoSenshi]

Not defending the guy who only popped 4 CDs in O1S, but Cover + Hallowed? Really?

[s3ystic]

I see it as:
DPS that couldn't hack it play tanks.
Tanks that couldn't hack it play healers.
Healers that couldn't hack it play DPS.

(PS before someone gets their jimmies rustled.. this.. is.. a... JOKE.)

I couldn't hack at life so I play all three.

[ChaoticCrimson]

I'll admit, the idea of playing as a tank or healer does freak me out a bit. I'd be too afraid to mess up important jobs like that. I'm still doing my best just to keep up as a DPS player. That being said, anyone who plays those roles - especially those who play them well - are pretty impressive in my book.

[bswpayton]

Seen this claimed a few times about FFXIV tanking. What are your personal thoughts on the skill required to be a tank in FFXIV? Do you think it's more or less than other competing MMOs? What about past MMOs(or past expansions of other MMOs)?

As far as dungeons go its actually zero reason to play a dps as a main, the gameplay of a dps just isnt that much more amazing that Id waste hours just to get in dungeons as a dps. And as far as the harder content for me if I havve no parser as a dps then its pointless because I could see the big numbers like sam for instance Im doing 23k for the big hit skill.

But in reality If Im not doing the weaves of that other skill my dps would be poor, so to me I cant take dps serious without knowing my actual dps numbers. And Ive said before there is nothing that is like o wow dpsing is so much more amazing to me than tankin like the gameplay different isnt like o wow let me never tank again because playing dps is just so amazing I cant resist the gameplay. So to answer your question for me If I ever mained a dps se would have to put a parser in the game to let me know how I was reallly doing otherwise Id never know how I really was doing.