Slight tangent but were Tank base defenses closer to melees back in like SB? Base as in just by gearing and passives and not counting their mitigation skills and stances. Also wondering how close MNK was to Tank defenses when they were in Fists of Earth.

Been thinking they might've baked the old stance defenses into them in ShB and then started (somewhat) balancing around that, making the other roles worse at backup tanking than they used to be.