Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
I love this thread originator's idea the XI had clearly defined roles... thinking noone else here ever played XI. In XI the go-to tank was not a tank. XI's Ninja was considered by players to be one of the best tanks... even though it didn't have a single tanking skill in it's arsenal. In a party that had Ninja tanking you NEEDED an off-tank, even if a good... no, BRILLIANT Ninja could keep their mitigation spells up indefinitely. This is because Ninja were literally Thieves with spells. So squishy that if a mob sneezed too hard in a Ninja's general direction they died. Utsusemi was a mitigation spell, but it was never meant as a tanking spell. It was an MP-free Blink, and NOONE wanted a Blink tank for the obvious reason, "When it drops, you die." That and alot of the harder monsters had attacks capable of ignoring shadows.
NIN was quite capable of taking a hit at end game, but by then it didnt matter PLD with NIN sub was the goto tank for most end game content there were a few exceptions but not many. Did enjoy NIN/DRK that was fun. Alas people do however need to remove the rose tinted specs while alot of us have fond memories of XI, its systems just aren't going to work in a modern mmo.