Quote Originally Posted by ArianeEwah View Post
No, Heirro is right. WAR is fine compared to its tank brethren.

Just looking at the "played" numbers doesn't help. In fact, we could construe the number of GNB parses as GNB being the 2nd worst/least enjoyable tank. Yet, the most recent poll from reddit and also recent forum thread GNB is one of the most liked job of all FF14 ShB jobs right now.
GNB also having the highest representation of all tanks for speed kills says it's favored.

As Heirro said:


Also, WAR losing the most unique design mechanics, aestetics, and -last, but not least- dps from SB to ShB has hurt those "WAR mains". (I am using quotation mark on purpose bc it's mostly people jump off of WAR who enjoyed being the highest dps tank.)

I would've also rather enjoyed enhanced tank dynamics on every other tank instead of getting cuts on WAR identity, but here we are.
Mmm, I would put a pin in the GNB clear/played argument with TEA basically alienating GNB from a spot in most groups. GNB has the worst personal mitigation of tanks... and TEA you need personal mitigation as a tank in that fight (one of the few fights that require high mitigation for both tanks).
Other than that, GNB is the 'hardest' tank to play with optimization on fights from a rotation standpoint (PLD has to adjust thier rotations per fight so I balance the two out there) leading to more players going towards the 'casual' tanks of WAR/DRK or PLD with even unoptimized does well in most fights.
The biggest reason though is that 'ease of use' personally I feel as I have seen a surge of new tanks this expansion, but a mass migration of veteran tanks at the same time unhappy with where Tanks are in general from ShB. So the skill median of tanks has indeed dropped with more new tanks having little idea what they are doing even on the easy tanks (seriously I had a WAR PUG in 5S tout how they would MT and they were hot stuff... I was parsing and didn't say a word but was sitting about 3k DPS higher than the 'hot stuff' Tank).