Quote Originally Posted by Rydin View Post
I posed this question to my friends and I honestly don't know if WAR and PLD will ever co-exist.
their tanking styles are so similar. they both take a hit very well.
So one or the other will always be "in season"

but can they both be "in" at the same time?
Firstly, tank classes should be taking hits very well. That's the tank's job; at the end of the day, you're taking hits and surviving. If you're still lulled by the PLD vs NIN thing from XI, I suggest you purge the crap created by Utsusemi from your mind, because I pray every night before going to bed that I never see that ability in an MMO ever again.

Tank classes should be performing roughly the same, if only because it doesn't dilute your tank pool to niches where tank A is not good for certain content, but tank B is not good for other content and such. If a guy wants to gear their WAR as a tank, then by god they have the right to do so.

As far as both being "in", it's all a matter of balancing both jobs. I've been a tank in more than just FFXI, and I can tell you that having discrepancies between tanks is a horrible thing. Worse if you're the poor sod that picked the "wrong" tank class. We need less discrepancies and more options for the tank role, not the opposite.