Homogenization and Simplicity in Tank Roles

[Absurdity]

So really, the only benefit is the flavour of the stance. They are both the same mechanically speaking, so you can essentially call them the same stance. There is no simplicity there, just the same thing in a different coat of paint.

Flavour however often makes a big difference. The stances may achieve the same result but they are ever so slightly different in how they achieve that result, if you do that for more than a single ability it can have a big impact on how homogenized the tanks feel to play, and that's really the issue, they often "feel" like lazy copies of each other.


As for the healers, it's a bit difficult to say since I only ever pugged as a healer and when you pug you rarely ever have consistency, simply because even in savage you get tanks that are more effective at mitigating damage than others.

I do however not remember a single healer ever complaining about having to heal a specific tank job just because of their stances.

This could be partially due to tank stances being relatively irrelevant in Stormblood, it would be something we simply have to find out I guess.