Parry...

[PetiteMalFleur]

As a healer I've found healing tanks wearing dragoon gear to take a ton of spike damage.

Maybe you didn't appear to take as much damage because your healers had good mitigation on you.

[SwordCoheir]

As a healer I've found healing tanks wearing dragoon gear to take a ton of spike damage.

Tanks don't need to wear Dragoon armor in order to have competitively equal DPS gear. The only real difference when it comes to my DRG and my Tank DPS gear is my DRG gear has around 30% less Def, and 60% less M.Def naturally (Inverse for BLM/SMN gear) so yes they'd take more damage than they should be taking. Gear homogenization pretty much eliminates the gear deficiencies between classes leaving only the Job/Classes natural Traits, Attributes, and Abilities to differentiate the power of classes. If they are wearing DRG/MNK gear though while tanking, shame on them.

[ZDamned]

As a healer I've found healing tanks wearing dragoon gear to take a ton of spike damage.

Maybe you didn't appear to take as much damage because your healers had good mitigation on you.

Last I heard, you can play on more than 1 job in this game, and I logged out on my 3rd, which happens to be Dragoon. Had I logged on out m level 8 Armorer, would you have made the same moronic comment?