Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
I'm saying that tanks tend to have qualities to the weight of armor, mages do not. Hence the stats (check your tank's strength vs mage's).
A suit of plate armour evenly distributes the weight around your body and is actually surprisingly easy to wear. If you have the strength to heft a staff around like crazy, you can wear at least light plate armour without much difficulty.

But like, say I want to play a healer that's a front-line battlefield medic with armour for protection, rather than some back-line robe-wearing healer. That should really be an option if tanks can wear heavy armour or robes as they see fit (FFXI had a WHM-equippable haubergeon as a token offering for mage armour, even).