How to make tanks more fun to play (devs please read)

[XNihili]

Was reading the entire OP, have to say I agree with idea of changing PLD skill names to an appropriate Final Fantasy ones in order to make Paladin more interesting to play. And also about the damage increase and removing some skills from the global cooldown

Good stuff to read =]

Don't need to change the skill names. You just need to make a cheesy macro with some witty references to anime/game/whatever and spam it to the party channel (or even the alliance channel) to make the Paladin more interesting to play and annoy the hell of everybody else.

[therpgfanatic]

Don't need to change the skill names. You just need to make a cheesy macro with some witty references to anime/game/whatever and spam it to the party channel (or even the alliance channel) to make the Paladin more interesting to play and annoy the hell of everybody else.

You're missing the point.

When someone is interested in buying the game, who normally plays a tank in other MMOs and is a diehard fan of Final Fantasy, looks at the tank classes and recognizes none of the ability names, that can be a turn off from buying the game at all. Or at least encourage them to look at Dragoons thinking that perhaps they can tank as a Dragoon.

There are folks who spend hundreds of dollars into cosplay costumes of Final Fantasy characters, making completely faithful recreations. A lot of these people also play MMORPGs. You better believe if you had a character who had some trademark FF attacks there would be some of them that say, "I have to roll a tank for Riot Blade / Omnislash / Renzokuken ".

There are hundreds of videos on YouTube of characters showing off their Dragoon doing nothing but jump attacks on low lv critters. Some of these videos have tens of thousands of views, I'm fairly it is people who want to see what the game has to offer before they buy that are watching them. What I am suggesting is not being ridiculous, it's perfectly sound given that people care deeply about these trademarked and iconic Final Fantasy abilities. It's hard to estimate how many people have been turned off by FF XIV because there isn't enough iconic abilities for the melee classes, instead abilities with wholly original names that could have been in any other MMO.