Quote Originally Posted by Burningskull View Post
You can have all the tanks you want. Gunblade doesn't say tank to me. It says DPS. And honestly I think they keep making DPS jobs tanks just to have new tanks. DRK, WAR, now GNB? All these DPS jobs that don't feel like tanks being forced to tank. IMO anyway.
So lets look at the 3 tank classes you listed there...

DRK. Main character of FF4 started as a dark knight. Effectively the tank of the group. In other games Dark Knight has had defensive stats and armor selections comparable to tanks and sometimes had self destructive skills that provided high burst damage at their own expense. A majority of DRK deaths in FFXI were a result of players using low defense gear for a few extra points in offensive stats and then making poor decisions on when to use their damage boosting skills.

WAR. Previous games this was basically the meat and potatoes general heavy melee. meant to stand there and get hit while hitting back. You could relate this back as far as fighter in FF1.

Gunbreaker? Well since it appears the job at the moment is based on gunblade users from FF8 who basically served as guardians for someone else standing at the front as a shield and working as a protector. Yet you say it should be a squishy dps?