Quote Originally Posted by aodhan_ofinnegain View Post
ah I missed the "in some capacity" but the argument is still valid nonetheless, like there is another thread that suggest baking in PLD's Awareness that was added to the tank role actions in SB, the subsequently removed this expansion, and baking it into Sheltron, then you could keep crit before block and parry, in the normal course of things, but right now PLD is the only tank that can't deal with crits with it's "on-demand" CD. So either the game checks for Block and Parry before Crit, or they adjust Sheltron.
I suppose it's a valid perspective relative to Sheltron being a block-based ability, but as far as I'm aware there aren't any tankbusters that can crit in current content so it's mostly irrelevant. Using Sheltron to block auto-attacks is about as useless as mitigating autos with any other similar ability. If it boils down to dungeon content you have to be content that the 4 tanks each have their own plus/minus just as they do within raiding content, else you simply end up demanding that every job has counter-ability equal to the others. Does DRK then need the same caveat since a critical attack will consume more of it's TBN shield than a normal attack would've? Why does PLD need a mitigation buff more than GNB? Why do either of them need mitigation buffs when they already excel in offense compared to DRK and WAR? There's nothing wrong with allowing critical attacks to help balance differentiation.