Red Mage (Tank) Please!

[Welsper59]

Well it could be a tank or a support really. Personally I'd like to see a tank class ppl won't avoid like the plague cause "its boring". News flash: All roles press a sequence of buttons resulting in causing cascading numbers to appear in your screen(how larger numbers affect fun I'll never understand) so please SE, give us more " interesting " tanks to utilize.

Honestly though, the absolute #1 reason why people don't take up the tank role in any game is because of the responsibility associated to it. In games where you move around as a group, the tank (the one who bears the burden of handling all the mobs), is typically looked at as the leader of the pack. The alpha. Just like IRL activities, practically no one wants to burden the responsibilities of being a leader. Heck, think about if you joined a simple FATE or hunt group, would you (or anyone else) actively volunteer to be leader? Probably not.

Unless this were a game like FFXI where you don't move around, have a designated puller (usually a THF, RNG, BRD, etc), and essentially setup camp for most activities, tanks will always be seen as the leader in a generic group activity that isn't already being run by a designated leader. In order to change that, you'd need to change the importance of tanks being the first to agg stuff. The boredom bit is relevant too, but is very much a side note compared. Tanks could be over-complicated to make things a lot less monotonous, but that'd also be a hindrance to the population of tanks. It's a big cluster**** situation.

When you use Gauss Barrel and WM you turn Bard from Physical to Caster and change its play-style completely. Just like when you use Cleric Stance you change healers into ranged DPS casters.

I am not saying that. I am saying there are many "types" of ranged casters and casters in general for DPS, Healing roles.

None however for Tanking roles.

Well technically, removing tanking stances turns them into DPS... PLD being the exception to that, be it in Shield Oath or Sword Oath lol.