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

[jwang]

Why are you leveling a GLD to DPS? It's a tank class through and through and is designed as thus. You're there to soak up damage, not to deal it. Also, Sword Oath tanking is perfectly viable since the extra damage component from auto-attacks generate additional threat, and the damage boost to Halone combo from not having Shield Oath up will make it perfectly capable of holding hate. If your GLD can't hold hate, it's because he's either not using enough enmity abilities or your LNC is attacking something that your GLD isn't actively tanking.

[therpgfanatic]

Also, Sword Oath tanking is perfectly viable since the extra damage component from auto-attacks generate additional threat, and the damage boost to Halone combo from not having Shield Oath up will make it perfectly capable of holding hate.

Paladins have significantly less HP than Warriors do, and thereby need the constant 20% damage reduction from Shield Oath.

Unless you believe you can survive Mountain Busters w/o it. Which hasn't been my experience. Even using Flash to blind him right before, I don't see any way for an appropriately leveled Paladin to tank Titan without Shield Oath. And that's true for several other boss encounters.

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This thread seems to be getting a lot of trolling because it's in the General Discussion. There is a similar post in the tanking section which has a lot of good ideas, too and I think the devs should read it as well.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-to-see-happen.