Should Dark Arts Come Back in 6.0? If so, What Should the Skill Do?

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

Doing damage very much has to be a part of 'actual tanking'. If it isn't, then there aren't going to be any 'actual tanks'.

Similarly, if there isn't anything more than that, there aren't going to be any 'actual tanks'.

If the idea of tanking is merely that I hit an enemy hard before they hit me hard, or after being hit, I can then hit for more (so that I'm dealing DPS levels of damage but there's only one permitted of me at a time), that's just Blue DPS.

I have to side with Shurrikhan on this one. "Tank" means a defender, not a attacker. defensive survivability and supportive "protect your allies".
or, at least, in a RPG...

but... as I did already mention before...
FFXIV is a mere glorified action game, and not a RPG, with the fundamental design flaw of "DPS is more important than aught else and only DPS matters"... in FFXIV, "tanks" are just durable damagers with defense abilities, and FFXIV "healers" are just vulnerable damagers with healing abilities.
the "it's all DPS? / always has been." meme exits for a reason...

I agree with Shurrikhan because Tanks should be actually designed as Tanks, but.. on the other scale, Lyth is also not wrong...
in FFXIV, only DPS matters, and that has to(disappointingly) be kept in mind...