Quote Originally Posted by Izsha View Post
Parry niche? Are you serious? Are we just making up niches to pretend that the world is ended?

zomg! Drk has total lock down on the self shielding niche, the fastest attacking niche, the ground aoe niche, the magic defense niche, highest enmity action niche, ogcd spam niche, the best story quest niche. See all the niches! More niches means better job so drks the best nao.

Sheesh. Having a passive 0-10% parry based on gauge while in a tank stance no one uses doesnt make war a parry tank or have some made up parry niche. Raw in is just a 20% physical mit skill. If raw makes war the party tank then drk has a stupendous magic defense niche with 30% and once a minute. So drk has the magic niche. But war is somehow hoarding all the niches. Oh wait. You just look at every unique skill on war and call it a niche, but entirely ignore every unique skill in pld and drk. Solid.

I can run down the list on drk and pick out every unique capability it has and call it a niche drk is hoarding, but you immediately see how stupid that would be. It's just as easy to see when you do it too.
DRK use to have parry mechanics, now have zero but WAR keep theirs, DRK use to have the best mobility, now WAR get a overall better tool for that, PLD use to be the only tank with raid shielding, now WAR have the best shield between all tanks, WAR get rampart coming from nowhere but his mitigation kit was untouched, now is the best mitigation tank too, self-healing WAR is still unbeatable, ect ect.

When we look at heavenward every tank was more unique, the imbalance was just a matter of numbers, DRK mobility, reprisal, parry mechanics, int down, the job bring unique stuff to the party, PLD the same despite being low in magic defense bring party shielding cover as do now too, clemency, str ect down.

And now PLD shielding is surpased by WAR shielding, DRK mobility is surpassed by WAR mobility, both tank mitigation are surpassed by WAR mitigation, tank stance are being always surpassed by WAR defiance and I can still going.