Not that I'm supporting RDM as a tank but one thing to consider.

People are saying that adding more tanks won't create more tanks. While this is true for MOST people in MOST cases. XIV has the rare situation where you have people like my friend and I. When we played XI my friend was DRK and I was RDM. When DRK was announced he didn't care that it was a Tank (he had been playing Healer and DPS mostly at his point) he was playing DRK no matter what role it fit.

Similarly, I myself play a DPS most of the time - sometimes healer if needed. I don't really tank.

I will play RDM no matter what role it gets shoved into due to my love of it in past games.


So while it's not a major factor to most people, if RDM was a Tank - you would have at least one person swapping to a role they don't normally go to. Again though, I'd MUCH prefer RDM be a DPS but I'll take what I can get to have Nagoto be a RDM again.