Samurai

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I really don't understand what kind of mechanics people have in mind when they talk about ranged tanks.

I mained a Powertech tank in swtor for quite a while, which was often advertised as a ranged tank, and is often referred to when the topic is brought up. But it wasn't a ranged tank. It was a melee tank that happened to also have some ranged abilities. Your core enmity rotation still required you to be in melee, and if you went the dps spec it revolved around melee moves as well.

I don't really understand how you could maintain being ranged as a tank without the mechanics getting really weird.

I could see beast master being a ranged tank, but this is a topic of samurai not what makes a good range tank, so i won't say much more on that. I honestly want to see SAM as a dps. We are lacking in the 2-hand dps department since more of them are tanks already.