Whats Your Favorite Tank Class and Why?

[Freyyy]

Warrior but Dark Knight is not really far behind. I was main WAR til 3.0 but currently main DRK in raids and having a blast with it (my co-PLD even switched to WAR for raids). Tho I'm still a complete Warrior in my heart and may switch back to it in the future if my co-PLD wants to get back to his PLD (if the job gets some love in future patches).

[Shurrikhan]

I like all three about equally, but honestly only Warrior feels like a completely finished work. PLD and DRK still seem like they could use tiny modifications.

(Not that larger modifications would be uncouth, etc... In fact I can imagine some pretty good results from larger revisions. They'd just be less than necessary.)

[kensatsu]

Warrior , i can do massive damage and can migitate very well the tank buster.
Pld look also unfinished to me, the pld and dark is very good too, but i would say the way the pld is playing can be boring, i mean i would like they add a proper mechanic to the pld, (the warrior have the stacks of rage/ abbandon), (the dark knight have the dark art mechanic)
Dark is more interesting to play than pld to me.

[rawker]

Paladins. I've always been a fan of the sword and board tank.

[NovaLevossida]

I have no preference other than the one that will actually make large pulls. I play a SMN and it especially annoys me when you have a tank wearing an i200 weapon with i190+ armor and only wants to pull two mobs at a time for eso grinding. Please.

[Gabrielleblanc]

Paladin, I love sword and board classes, just wish we had more shield skills to use for fighting.

[Kuwagami]

Warrior.

I've played it since the beta, been called a bad tank because my job sucked at the time compared to the PLD, been refused from every party ever in anything harder than garuda HM for a while, got to T5 with it, and then got blessed by the rework. My axe is my love, and I won't quit it for a huge while.

The only class which could make me change would be dancer I think.

PLD is interesting, but I only take the sword when I want to shut down my brain for a while, as the CDs allow more room for brainfarts. I haven't touched much the DRK yet, but I feel clunky with that huge sword. Less natural than the axe imo

[Twilite]

My favorite tank class, is a TNK. Or tank.

[Caj814]

Pretty much a career WAR since FFXI and that transitioned to my decision when FFXIV relaunched. I'm glad that they shine so brightly right now in comparison to endgame FFXI where they were pretty much a versatile DPS within the gear/weapons loadout and skillchain system.

[fm_fenrir]

Pretty much a career WAR since FFXI and that transitioned to my decision when FFXIV relaunched. I'm glad that they shine so brightly right now in comparison to endgame FFXI where they were pretty much a versatile DPS within the gear/weapons loadout and skillchain system.

That's more because the "Fending" line here in XIV actually has some kind of impact on your mitigation, unlike XI where wearing PLD-type gear didn't mean you were able to actually tank anything. Sentinel and Rampart were huge compared to Defender, so yeah, WAR was necessarily shifted out of the tank slot into a DPS slot.

Anyway, I've had a blast with DRK, and it's so much fun just dominating the threat table in both ST/AOE situations. Yeah, it's less durable than a PLD, I guess, but it's plenty durable to eat things that are a lot more hectic when I do them as a WAR.