This goes for so many classes and not just dragoon. Healers and mages or sam/monk/nin and ranged. I understand why they do it and I guess it solves resources problems but I wish if drgs are gonna wear gear that looks like tanks they'd give us a little more defense.

For some odd reason I remember drg being more durable in def in arr(not mdef holy dear god) so heavy looking gear that resembled the tank made sense. Now devs are just cutting corners and other than aesthetics theres no point. But might I point out that drg often has recolors with sam/monk/nin and not just tanks. So in that sense we have more variety than say healers and mages.