There's not much unique-ness when it comes to tank jobs, are there?

[Acidblood]

i am looking at your HW/SB paladin in dungeons

I played PLD all throughout HW and SB, never had an issue in dungeons, in fact it was often commented that I was an easy Tank to heal... or do you mean DPS wise?

In which case, sigh; the obsession with DPS (and the designs that drive it) are the root cause of the homogenisation we have seen with 5.0 and it is making the game boring. Levelling Tanks and Healers in ShB has been like pulling teeth and I certainly have no desire to play them at level cap (despite playing both roles regularly in HW and SB). Honestly, if BLM wasn't so much fun I'm not sure I would still be playing.

NB. I'm levelling Tanks and Healers because I like being able to change gameplay styles, and fill needed roles, but the enjoyment of playing them has gone down significantly since 5.0

[Nedkel]

I played PLD all throughout HW and SB, never had an issue in dungeons, in fact it was often commented that I was an easy Tank to heal... or do you mean DPS wise?

In which case, sigh; the obsession with DPS (and the designs that drive it) are the root cause of the homogenisation we have seen with 5.0 and it is making the game boring. Levelling Tanks and Healers in ShB has been like pulling teeth and I certainly have no desire to play them at level cap (despite playing both roles regularly in HW and SB). Honestly, if BLM wasn't so much fun I'm not sure I would still be playing.

NB. I'm levelling Tanks and Healers because I like being able to change gameplay styles, and fill needed roles, but the enjoyment of playing them has gone down significantly since 5.0

Well yeah, dps focus is what gave us 5.0 tanks, they play all the same with few differences here and thee.

All have aoe combo, strong aoes, 1-2-3 combo, bigger single target damage, pull, dash, similar def CDs, some heal, gauge to use, etc stuff.
It was made this way to once and for all finish the balance problems between them.

I almost lvled up to max all of the tanks, it feels like playing the same job with some adjustments, cant get myself to play them anymore its just meh.