Lancer Tanks!

[Jandor]

With a two-handed or spear and shield option you could have had the ability to go higher damage and use parry for mitigation or lower damage but safer with block plus maybe a few job based shield skills. The arguments would have gone on forever about how to build your Lancer tank, would have been fun.

Edit: oh and a big red cape on the AF gear would have been great. Spear + shield + long flowing cape = awesome.