Quote Originally Posted by Anova View Post
That is an interesting tank idea and I'd like to see it implemented in ffxiv. The biggest concern is that the delayed damage tanks may eat in to healer dps times, which makes it a huge detriment to endgame groups and thereby unpopular in the meta. There's probably a few tricks and testing to find the best ratio of damage:delayed-damage, but it is something to be aware of when developing the idea.
Here's more info on stagger if you're curious.

I won't go into how many things are wrong with the current meta, so off the top of my head giving the job on-demand self heals would be an option. Brewmasters have Purifying Brew to remove the "DoT" from Stagger, but it costs them a unit of Chi, which is their unique resource. You could give DNC something similar by having it consume steps/count as a finisher (if we were to use FFXI's step/finisher system).