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

[eagledorf]

I'm pretty sure autoattack isn't 25% of anyone else's DPS

I don't know what the exact percentage is, but auto-attack is very important to a MNK's DPS. Greased Lightning boosts auto-attack potency and frequency. Given MNK DPS, dodging mechanics clearly isn't a problem.

Shield Oath over-rides Sword Oath. So you can't even use Sword Oath while tanking.

Yes...and Warriors can't turn off Defiance while tanking and healers can't sit in Cleric Stance while healing. I don't see how this is a unique problem with PLD? Hell, MNK can't use FoE and FoF at the same time...

The fact of the matter is, at i70 (with relic) my character does 76 to 150 points of damage per ability,

Hm...my PLD hits with a comboed Halone for over 400 at i83. If you factor in the auto-attacks, that's quite respectable for a class for which DPS is a secondary or even tertiary concern.

You really have to factor in the sustainability and cast time when comparing to healers. Do you think BLM does higher DPS than a MNK because their fire spells hit for over 1k damage and a MNK hits for just a few hundred? The reality is that MNK pretty much always destroys BLM for any single target or small group of mobs. The comparison is even more striking with SMN that almost never hits for anything but pathetic damage. SMN also pretty much destroys BLM in anything but a huge swarm of mobs.