Quote Originally Posted by TheForce View Post
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Your job as a tank is to hold threat while contributing as much as you can to the group you are in. As long as the mobs aren't attacking your group and you know how to effectively spread out and juggle your defensive cooldowns, that is all you need for survivability. Using full determination and Tenacity materia isn't going to help you live any longer, and If you are having to rely on it you either need to learn how to tank or get a new healer.


I honestly can't comprehend why you would intentionally gimp yourself because you seem insistent on sticking to archaic rules of Tanking. Not every Tank in every game needs to focus on reducing the damage they take, FFXIV is one of those exceptions. Every single point of damage you take in this game is 100% scripted, there is zero reason to focus on decreasing how much damage you take, You are never going to be in a situation where you go "Man I would have survived that Tank Buster had i beefed up defensively by melding tenacity", If you are dying to any damage you tank in this game you either don't know how to manage your cooldowns properly or you don't have a good healer. That is it, period.


I honestly don't care if you want to interpret reality as me being "Toxic". You need to get over your Primadonna Tank mentality and start accepting the fact that what you're saying is 100% incorrect.