Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
Damage mitigation and keeping hate are the main duties of a pure tank. Instead of "turning mages cures into dps", it's much more practical to mitigate the damage to begin with to allow the mages to spend the time and MP on dots and buffs and debuffs instead of cure bombing.



Foresight II, Twisting Vice, Featherfoot II, Sentinel, Diversion, Punishing Barbs, Invigorate II, Comrade in Arms II, Emulate, Keen Flurry, Cadence, Hawk's Eye, Still Precision, Siphon TP, Contagion, Line of Fire, Bloodletter, Skull Sunder II

^ those are all better skills. Some of those aren't that useful in certain situations, though, so if you have AP to spare and really want to, then fine, go ahead and equip Discerning Eye.
pug tank doesnt fill the same need as a glad tank, the focus isnt on perfect damage reduction, we get high hp, better use out of second wind and deal damage. Evasion tanking is nerver perfect and you cant evade spells.
foresight isnt too useful on pug, we get good parry, but better to spend that stamina on featherfoot which can trigger on evade skills, the cooldown is long on sub, and on parry skills to be useful, and those will be less effective on pugilist
sentinel is a shield skill
twisting vise i dont got
featherfoot is always there
diversion i dont got
barbs is ehhh useful i suppose
invig is there
comrade is someone elses job
emulate dont got
keen flurry is for punks who think they gonna miss a BR
hawk eye is there
still precision is very anti pugilist
siphon tp dont got it
skull sunder is there

i think it comes down to playstyle, you are a glad so you see it like a glad would.
for a pug, discerning eye is hot, we probably get more damage buff from it, and at the very least a faster timer. a lot of those skills on sub become situational due to the cool downs, others of them would require a high level in another job, and are still pretty situational, like emulate. i could use discerning every 1.5 minutes and get an attack boost for like 20 seconds, wheras all i get out of diversion is dodging 1 attack every, what 2 minutes on sub?

Pug is a dps tank, i do more damage than a glad, but i take more, faster fights with higher risk. as a pug versus an one of the NMs two of us duoing was able to kill almost as fast as 2 glads and some other job of a higher level, they may have been more mp effecient, but we were more dps and survived the fight. its a different style of play. (we were both melee btw, lancer and pug)

the game actually allows for very different set ups from person to person. playstyle to playstyle.