The 4th Tank.

[Tila]

The game will more than likely one day have a 4th tank. I was curious what people thoughts were concerning what this may be.

As far as I can tell, the main thing that it would have to follow, is the abiliity to wear plated armor, since SE likes keeping tanks in the same gear. The big issue is that as far as I can tell, there really are no more plate classes among final fantasies various jobs, so it would likely have to be something unique to FFXIV. Likewise, the mechanic would likely have to be somewhat unique too, since there is only so much you can do with tanks mechanic wise.

In my mind, I see 3 potential future tanks.
1. A gun blade wielding Garlean like tank. Since 1. It's a crowd favorite. and 2. Plate
2. A beast master that duel wields axes and has a sort of pet focus, if only because I can see it wearing plate, and I feel that such a class would be unique.
3. A heavy armor toting magitech cannon user. For above reasons: having a minor range focus would make it unique.

I don't want to go into much detail on what each would entail, since I don't want to have the thread focus entirely on my thoughts, so what do you think a new tank would look like?

[Vurtney]

I'm not going into details but we already have traditional tank archetypes. I'd like to see a non anthropomorphic tank, meaning something that isn't a humanoid in any shape or form (As in something like a good old bear in Warcraft)

[ProfBlake]

I'm not going into details but we already have traditional tank archetypes. I'd like to see a non anthropomorphic tank, meaning something that isn't a humanoid in any shape or form (As in something like a good old bear in Warcraft)

You mean Morpher from FFTA

[Paikis]

4th tank? You mean Eos?

[Tila]

I'm not going into details but we already have traditional tank archetypes. I'd like to see a non anthropomorphic tank, meaning something that isn't a humanoid in any shape or form (As in something like a good old bear in Warcraft)

Ooo, that'd be neat. What would their form be? Bear is already a taken Warrior aesthetic.

Oh I know, they can base it around the beast tribes. Kobold could be a sorta AoE stance. Sahagin would be based around movement. Amalj'aa would be traditional tanking and so on.

[cearka]

dannncceeeerrrrrrrrr

[Freyyy]

Viking from FF3, with a thunder hammer. Would be a blunt damage tank and could be applying the blunt debuff too to synergize with MNK.

[Vurtney]

You mean Morpher from FFTA

That would be a race specific job, Nu Mou, though S-E has taken liberal freedom of spicing things up in XIV. For a Morpher to work in an MMO setting it would have to have pre-defined forms or balancing it would be a complete disaster. A shape shifter would make an interesting hybrid job.

As for forms and roles, Morpher could be a real hybrid with a holy trinity built to it (Dps, Tank, Healer) Leather armor, converts beneficial main stat depending on role. Sounds like a Druid, i know but oh boy, i'd love to tank as something that stands on FOUR legs. FF lore has plenty of species to work with so anything is possible.

Tanking as Juggernaut or Tanket would be kinda cool (FFX species) One can dream.

[ProfBlake]

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Not particularly hard to accomplish if handled with care. You'd pretty much have a Tank whose main focus is actual stance dancing, which, lets be honest here, would be infinitely more interesting than what we currently have, granted that Dark Knight, for example, being the latest tank class to be added to the game, is in fact an interesting class to play as, its final execution is slightly lacking (though that's what balance patches and fixes are for anyway).

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Red Mage {Yes, please.}

Make it a job based around keeping up several debuffs, while using a scythe or a rapier and a shield. It would be a true magic based tank, with enspells, one sword combo with 2 combo enders, and various damage spells with a short cast time. (1.5 seconds?)