Is me or MRD will remain as main tank on this game after 1.20?

[Elexia]

Even then, this is exactly like how FFXI played out:

Original Tank = Warrior
Paladin gets some fixes = Backup tank

Fastfoward through Zilart and many more adjustments

Warrior = more focused towards DD
Paladin = more focused towards tanking, becoming the key tank
Ninja = Sup?

Fastfoward through even more adjustments and level cap increases including more job and spell additions and ability additions throughout the years

Warrior = Pure DD and stagger whore.
Paladin = The tank. Period. (You can't argue against a very decent rate of restoring your hp with damage dealt, i.e mob does a 2.2k dmg WS you'll restore 2.2k HP.)
Ninja = Up and down in terms of tanking role.

So for now there's two clear tanks, but with further adjustments this can and will change, so it's hard to say MRD will be the main tank of the game when this is only 1 patch.

[Darkscorpion]

well before they announced this i assumed glad wouldnt have enough abilities to tank. didnt realize that all abilities are being redone... only real issue is gonna be what are new classes suppose to do? i dont see any content

I believe the moogle fight will be against multiple mobs (moogles), where bard and Pld my fit better than a fight like ifrit where everyone will focus only on one target. but on fights like ifrit MRD will remain the king.
Side note: Bards will always fit on any battle ^^

[DNO]

No... WAR is a DPS that can tank small weaker mobs. GLD will be needed for greaer hate control, greater defense, and Better MP management.

Just like in ff11 war is a backup tank only.

[Arkine]

The good skills of GLA arent exclusives while de MRD good ones are exclusives.

MRD/WAR = Tank

These are the MRD exclusives:

Increases attack power and reduces defense with each successful attack. Effect resets upon sustaining damage, and fades upon reuse.

Increases attack speed and power for each attack against you, and restores HP for each crit you land. Effect fades upon moving or reuse.

Grants imperviousness to enfeebling effects at the cost of reduced movement speed.

The first relies on you NOT taking damage to work the second and third requires you to have your back to a wall, and none of the above are really damage reducing abilities.

[syntaxlies]

The good skills of GLA arent exclusives while de MRD good ones are exclusives.

MRD/WAR = Tank

im not saying it wont be able to tank, but yoshs favorite class is paladin and i dont think hell let it fail.

[Seth_Ahriman]

im saying if u can tank on bard i will tank on bard.... XD miss those days.

[Carpe]

im not saying it wont be able to tank, but yoshs favorite class is paladin and i dont think hell let it fail.

Where did you read that? He's always said his favorite classes are casters.

[grandm]

2 tanks that are not an exact clone of one another. i see no problem here

[Elexia]

Where did you read that? He's always said his favorite classes are casters.

Classes he can attack from afar, i.e Ranged and Mages.

[Belial]

Here's what I see happening:

PLD/WAR stack tanking. PLD with it's AoE regens and healing abilities + WARs deep HP pool = PLD single-target tanking, WAR trash tanking.

Like if the Moogle fight were to have say, one king moogle and seven lesser moogles, then PLD will hold the main mob, WAR the trash, and they will be tanking close to each other so as MRD receives the AoE healing/regen benefits from PLD.