What do you guys think is the cause of severe lack of Tank users?

[Vyrerus]

At the time I never really took it to its apex, but I do remember that I wanted to be the best WAR that I could possibly be so I farmed dungeons for Philosophy Tomestones relentlessly until I could buy enough Animal Fat for my friend to make my HQ Gryphonskin accessories, which I put VIT IV materia along with Parry materia into it. When we finished pentamelding those, I had like 531 parry, and then like 450 crit or something, don't remember the determination, but I was also making sure to meet the accuracy values. Best of all I could use them on my DRG and have it be a little more survivable if I mistimed a jump.

But like WAR with that parried like every other attack, parried for -24% due the STR boosting parry mitigation, and I think that was when DEX still added to parry as well, and like 45 DEX gave like something silly low like 6 parry or something lol. My biggest grin was probably tanking the snake in Turn 1, and the group being like, "Can you even live past 3 stacks? We're going to make the SCH heal you for extra goodness." And then due to some weird luck I lived till 5 stacks, but as it got the 5th stack it died anyway. I probably woulda died to the next cleave though from full HP haha.

[Shurrikhan]

My biggest grin was probably tanking the snake in Turn 1, and the group being like, "Can you even live past 3 stacks? We're going to make the SCH heal you for extra goodness." And then due to some weird luck I lived till 5 stacks, but as it got the 5th stack it died anyway. I probably woulda died to the next cleave though from full HP haha.

That was the 2.0 Warrior life, getting neglected by healers, and still outliving the (admittedly, much less timing-aware) PLD. I just wish we had the stack (now 'gauge') banking margins, Unchained CD, and Infuriate frequency we have now. Muahaha.

Would have been sick to have the passive disbenefits scale in the same way as the benefits and to have had smaller spender options, too... Though at that point any future stances like Deliverance would have been all too clearly the bloat they were unless they dipped into OT-only Berserker territory, which... would have been even more OP than HW WAR.