Why leave your shield at home!?

[AlphaDragoon]

See, my problem with Gladiators being "THE tanks" is that SE themselves made it look like you could choose to be a DD with Gladiator only to find out "Oh, you can't. Sorry." If they were going to make Gladiators pure tank they could have left out things like "or, some may choose to forgo a shield, focusing solely on their sword arm" that make it sound HIGHLY like you could have chosen to be a DD Glad if you wanted when really that's not the case.

For folks like myself who wanted to play a sword wielding class and not be a tank, that was kinda what we were hoping for only to get told "LOL no go use an axe or punch something if you want DD". And no, "go play Lancer" ISN'T a valid response for folks like us. I don't want to use a spear, otherwise I would have went Lancer from the get-go.