Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
That other tank wasn't an option for 90% of content. Why couldn't the two types of tanks be equal, or at least as close to equal as possible, in all content?
Blood tanking or evasion tanking. The situation/enemy decided.

Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
Do you know why? It was because nobody wanted to level a Paladin, because nobody in exp parties cared to have a Paladin tank. Everyone wanted a Ninja, and it was directly reflected in the end-game population of tanks.
Possibly nobody wanted to level Paladin, and equally as possible that many had already done so.

Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
No, /NIN negated the other subs because Utsusemi was so far above the other abilities that other subs provided, that you would be f**king stupid not to take it. It gave you no-brainer, easy-mode defenses for tanks and exponentially higher damage for DPS classes. There was no other sub that you could use, because they were all s**t by comparison.
Was Paladin not even easier to tank with? Flash > Provoke? Sounds pretty technical!