Are all the Tanks identical?

[Renathras]

Couple of examples.

Pld. Couple of combos then spam Holy spirit. Rinse and repeat...

War. Couple of combos. Spam fell cleave... rinse and repeat.

Pld.
Shelltron. Small mitigation tool for self.
Intervention. Same tool but for party member.

War.
Naccsitic flash. Small mitigation tool for self.
Glint. Same tool but for a party member..

Interesting.

Where in PLD's rotation do you "spam Holy spirit"? In what way is using Atonement like using Storm's Eye?

Can Nascent Flash (the ability is just Nascent Flash, Nascent Glint is just one of its effects) and Bloodwhetting (the single target version) both be used at the same time like how PLD can use Shelltron and Intervention at the same time? Does Intervention heal the PLD at the same time as the party member the way Nascent Flash does? Does Shelltron/Intervention require the PLD to be using Weaponskills on targets? Does it scale to AOE like WAR's do?

And did you say that GNB is "basically the same" as WAR? o.O

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While I do agree that many Tank Jobs are more similar than they should be, the level of hyperbole to say they're the same is starting to get ridiculous.

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EDIT:

Gotta admit DRK is probably the most unique of all the tanks considering it brings Magical Damage / Magical Mitigation to the game. GNB is proabably the most unique when it comes to DPS combo if you pull it off right. But to be honest I would not be surprise if all tanks felt the same like how all healers same. I miss when Astro Identity was Duality. It was cool either shifting from Heal Stance to SHield stance. It been cooler if you could've switch on the fly to spice up gameplay. 2

I see people say this a lot, but the problem is it would have been OVERPOWERED to be able to shift between Diurnal and Nocturnal during gameplay.

While people do love being powerful, it makes everyone else unnecessary. Everyone wants to be Batman, but if you being Batman makes everyone else glorified Robins, it doesn't work out well in a multiplayer game.

NOTE: I say this as a person that DOES want AST stances returned, but absolute does NOT want them to be swappable during combat.