Quote Originally Posted by Reinheart View Post
S-Orat started a thread with AA being implemented in FFXIV if the "Guard" skill using your shield will be removed since if it becomes auto guard it will give too much power for the tanks. Here's the response:

Original Thread Link: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/16032
I guess that is a little surprising because, why wouldn't you want to guard I guess if you could? But then, I guess THMs might not want to always be guarding...Question, while in guard do you move slower? Perhaps that is a limitation they didn't want to force (by making guard always active on those classes that can). Be interesting if they just created offensive, balanced, or defensive stances and those who could use guard would get a boost when in defensive stances but take offensive capability reductions, etc. Thoughts?