Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
The tank aesthetic as well as gameplay style doesn't really facilitate the Fury Berserker Warrior type well. Berserkers would be all about DPS, going in an all out frenzy hitting stuff as hard as you can with little other considerations, that's what I'd like to imagine when being a berserker. Tanks however are there to protect allies, use defensive abilities, soak damage and control the flow of battle (which is rather limited in FFXIV though). I think it goes without saying that this doesn't fit a furious berserker's aesthetic as wel as playstyle very well. MMOs that do offer a barbarian type of Tank seem to also have a berserker-like DPS variance more focused on the archetype I've just described.

And this is coming from a WAR main who has the bear mount so it's not that I particularly dislike tanking, I'd just love to have an all out berserker dps as well.
That's funny, I don't remember such complaints when WAR was "zomg overpowered 8×fellcleave420blazeit". It's almost like there is a reoccurring theme with guaranteed slot classes in previous expansions getting all uppity that they actually have to compete now and all they can seem to come up with as a rejoinder is "muh job aesthetics" when they had no complaints about the aesthetics of the job beforehand.

Just food for thought.