Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
MMOs havent been around long enough to come up with only one solutions. Guild wars 2 for example claim they have succesfully killed the trinity. i dont think its always going to come down to pure tanks and DDs, heck it didnt even come down to that in ffxi. people started realizing that monk could tank, warriors were pretty good. pld was the best at straight damage reduction, but that wasnt always the easiest answer.
I seen rdm tanks, monk tanks, theives, no one tanking.
They didn't realize it. The developers slackened their design to accomodate the lack of tanks around, and that tanks were FFXI's prima donnas. They slackened it to the point where gladiator became nothing but the token endgame tool, and that was fine because endgame had more than enough of them by then.

It wasn't due to some new amazing discovery of the untapped potential of warrior. The devs specifically enabled alternative tanking for that game because it just didn't matter any more.

You can't do that to this game within a year of its inception--just resort to who the hell cares any more mode.