Quote Originally Posted by Burningskull View Post
Also if they suddenly did make PLD a "Magic" tank... and left the other 3 "Melee" tanks you can bet people would then be saying, "We have 3 melee tanks and 1 magic tank. We need more magic tanks to round it out." Tho if they made PLD a magic tank they might as well make DRK a magic tank... not that they ever will lol.
Neither Paladin nor Dark Knight are magic knights. The brunt of their attacks are still physical and the stat for damage is still strength. Their armors are still physical as well.

A spell or three does not make one a caster, just like melee attacks don't make Red Mage a melee DPS.

If they did rework Paladin into an actual magic tank with brunt of their attack being magical...that would be a different thing. But that's unlikely. It's another class entirely, a Magic Knight. For Paladins magic was always secondary.


And yes, people would want more caster tanks. But how is that different from now?! I still want caster tanks (despite there being none) and I want non-caster healers. That's only natural. I use all three roles preferring healing over the others. But I don't have much of a variety of gameplay styles to choose from with healers or tanks. Sure, the healers and tanks we have currently are a bit more distinct from each other than DPS, but their overall playstyle is not really different at all.