Summoner Tanking Pet

[gilmorej]

...the Topaz Carbuncle and Titan-Egi haven't been effective tanks since 2.2 or 2.3...

Carbuncle / Titan have been tanking my overworld questing and solo duty just fine for 49 levels.

Just because they weren't useful in dungeons or raids didn't make them useless.

[Daralii]

Carbuncle / Titan have been tanking my overworld questing and solo duty just fine for 49 levels.

Just because they weren't useful in dungeons or raids didn't make them useless.

It's not just group content. Titan's enmity doesn't scale at all, so by the time you reach the mid-50s at the latest, he can't hold mobs off of you. It only gets worse as you level further, get more burst damage, and then summoning Demi-Bahamut causes his aggro to reset completely.

[Hasrat]

It's not just group content. Titan's enmity doesn't scale at all, so by the time you reach the mid-50s at the latest, he ecan't hold mobs off of you. It only gets worse as you level further, get more burst damage, and then summoning Demi-Bahamut causes his aggro to reset completely.

Your points are valid, but the fact remains, at low levels, Titan did serve as a passable tank keeping the player safe from harm.

I'm optimistic that the barrier functionality may serve well enough as a replacement, tho.