I'd cry a little if RDM was only just a tank, but that's just me.

Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
You could only do that if the DPS held back. Even 'proper' tanks had difficulty holding back aggro from many DPS in the late game simply because of the crazy damage they could output. Red Mage wasn't terrible in the aggro stakes, but there wasn't much enmity gear to go around for them, and they had limited strength since you would basically NEED sub war for provoke which killed some of your magical potential.
Enmity was an issue for every single tank, since it had a hard ceiling and DDs eventually overgeared compared to that ceiling.

As for RDM tanking, it boiled down to RDM/NIN for shadows and rotating cures and debuffs. Rotating debuffs for enmity was so good that SE nerfed the hell out of to end that practice. Sub WAR was only ever for goofing around or certain melee builds.