Tank balance and what CBU3 wants to do with job balance

[fulminating]

Is paladin the easiest now? I don’t think any tanks bar blue mage really have an especially high difficulty bar though.
I think they messed up by not buffing fc/pr/ic and instead buffing the storm finishers ages ago, and their reluctance to nerf jobs, now both are buffed so it’s overcorrected a bit. No idea what they were thinking with gunbreaker, it had so much going for it already. I’m pretty curious as to how they project the impact of their changes internally too, there’s a few that have felt like they’re trying to zero in on their goal but using the logging website as a means of measuring the effectiveness.

[Vanitax]

Is paladin the easiest now? I don’t think any tanks bar blue mage really have an especially high difficulty bar though.

If we're honest, tanks are not known for having a hard rotation. Even GNB, and its tight buff window, is something easy to understand. Maybe DRK is tricky for some when it comes to optimization and MP usage but nothing hard at the end, at least compared with DPS rotation. Now with that said, imo between tanks WAR and PLD are head-to-head. PLD has more abilities execution per minute since it has Circle of Scorn and Expiacion that must be refreshed every 30s and every 60s put inside a buff window. While WAR doesn't have a DMG buff CD and Infuriate's timing being reduced 5s for every Fell Cleave execution gives it a lot of flexibility.

I think it kinda depends on what kind of player you are. I'm more fond of flexible rotations like DRK and WAR, so I found WAR to be super brain-dead and DRK I can execute it without seeing my hotbar since I've been maining it since EW release.