Funnest Tank to play?

[Noctisnine]

The most fun imo is dark knight followed by paladin, gunbreaker and then warrior. Well Drk has this edge identity and the animations are very cool as well as sounds. Paladin is the most complete tank in the game with some very cool skills. He can heal himself he can heal others, he has a beautiful skill with wings and he has a magical ranged combo that has no cast. So he is very good for every content. Gunbreaker is also cool but since they changed his sounds he sounds like a blunt weapon job. Also his combo rotation is somehow hard to execute when mechanics happen. The least cool one for me Is warrior because he is very stiff and boring to play. Before you can even pull mobs you have to do storms eye combo and that is very stupid imo. He used to be the most popular tank by far. Now he is the least one which is sad maybe.

[Hierro]

I think DRK is probably one of the lesser fun tanks to play, and this is solely due to how a lot of the skills are not satisfying to use.

For example, every time I press GF or BZ on GNB, I feel satisfaction from seeing the animation and the damage that comes out. For WAR, every time I press infuriate and see an Inner Chaos, followed by that big number, or IR, you better believe I feel a rush of endorphins and dopamine.

But DRK? I don't feel satisfied in the slightest from hitting all 5 GCDs under BW. I just feel relieved I'm not punished. I don't get that big payoff feeling whenever I press Living Shadow, or Salted Earth, because neither are particularly flashy or eye grabbing. They're just CDs that start and end with a quiet whimper. Delirium? Don't even get me started. That's supposed to be DRK's burst moment, but it never quite feels like it unless you get a lucky direct crit, but pales in every way compared to IR.

But I'd still rank PLD the least fun lol.

[Lubu_Mykono]

Anything but Warrior at the minute.
All it has is a burst phase and self heals.

[SamRF]

Warrior with a full skill speed build is a lot of fun and makes such a huge difference in engagement and excitement imo. Too bad it's a terrible build meta wise. With huge skill speed I might consider it the most fun, without, probably the least. It's strange but I don't have this with other jobs, WAR in particular just feels really great and brutal with high skill speed.

I wish the job would get an overall skill speed buff like the melees (at cost of some dps potencies perhaps), I just get the feeling that's how it's supposed to be played with how well it flows and it also fits the theme aesthetic.

[LalafellDown]

It was DRK during the 3.0 days, but now all 4 tanks play the same. Each has a AOE, combo and burst attack.

[Kolsykol]

Honestly part of me sorta regrets leveling my GNB instead of DRK recently...
I just find the sound effects of GNB so hard to get over, the old ones were so much better :/.
They really sound so out of place and do take away from how it feels to play imo.

With the old sound effects I'd probably say GNB > DRK > PLD ( haven't leveled WAR ).
But as it is now I have a hard time deciding between GNB and DRK.

[Maeka]

For me, PLD.

Because you get actual support and defensive abilities beyond "take -x% damage". Sure DRK has TBN but that isn't until rather later on, and it just doesn't feel the same as Passage of Arms, Cover, Clemency, etc. It makes me FEEL more like a tank.

[ForgottenScholar]

I guess it just comes down to what aesthetic you prefer. For me a tank has always been and will be a pld in my head so it would rank towards my more favourite solid tank, with warrior and gnb a joint second. I’m using gnb a lot in Rival wings and enjoying that sort of mercenary tank style.
Drk has always ranked the bottom for me basically because I’m a ffxi player and my fav job on there was drk. A scythe wielding pure dps job and I just haven’t got into ffxiv version that made it a tank. Had it been a scythe wielding dps job I would be maining it till the end.

But in short play which one you like the look of, they all have similar basic kit and a few personal tweaks that either float your boat or doesn’t.

[Leidolf]

PLD for my first choice because I get to soak damage like a sponge and have so many cooldowns that I can pretty much take just about anything thrown at me or help the team. But GBN if I want to go full on Blue DPS and just hit the enemy hard, fast, and with explosions.

[Nedkel]

PLD and DRK.

GNB seems too strict on rotation, and warrior is plain out boring.

PLD for my first choice because I get to soak damage like a sponge and have so many cooldowns that I can pretty much take just about anything thrown at me or help the team. But GBN if I want to go full on Blue DPS and just hit the enemy hard, fast, and with explosions.

Then you want to try out DRK and WAR because those two has way better mitigation tools.