Thread: Idea for 4.0 Tank Class

Samurai stances:

Meikyou Shisui 明鏡止水 - Clear Mirror, Still Water. Tanking, parry/counter increase.
The concept is to attain a calm mind and be reflective of your inner self and the world around you. FFXI precedence as ultimate ability.

Fuurinkazan 風林火山 - Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain. Damaging, attack speed and/or strength.
Shingen Takeda quoted Sun Tsu's Art of War. The original concept: "故其疾如風、其徐如林、侵掠如火、難知如陰、不動如山、動如雷霆" rapid as wind, silent as forest, invasive as fire, unknown as shadow, unmovable as mountain, move as lightning

dual hammer gets my vote , hexaaaaaaaaaaaa strike

Originally Posted by Thaeros

Their CC would be lancer (for parry skill)

Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but even if SE did make a parry tank this has an almost 0% chance of happening. The parry skill would be amazing for any tank, but unfortunately LNC cross class skills also bring Blood for Blood to the table. The devs would have to be out of their minds to trust FF players with a tank that has access to that skill. Safer method is that all tanks get GLD cross class skills and MRD cross class skills. MRD can theoretically be swapped out for PGL (second wind, mantra, featherfoot) or in the event of a casting tank, THM (Swiftcast, surecast) or even better, ACN (Virus, eye for an eye, physick). NIN could be perhaps useful (Shade shift and Goad), but I don't think it's enough.

Originally Posted by Carstien

Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but even if SE did make a parry tank this has an almost 0% chance of happening. The parry skill would be amazing for any tank, but unfortunately LNC cross class skills also bring Blood for Blood to the table. The devs would have to be out of their minds to trust FF players with a tank that has access to that skill. Safer method is that all tanks get GLD cross class skills and MRD cross class skills. MRD can theoretically be swapped out for PGL (second wind, mantra, featherfoot) or in the event of a casting tank, THM (Swiftcast, surecast) or even better, ACN (Virus, eye for an eye, physick). NIN could be perhaps useful (Shade shift and Goad), but I don't think it's enough.

I wish they would expand the cross class concept a bit to allow jobs to draw from more than 2 base classes. Would be interesting to have a lot of the above available to a tank so you've got more viable options to choose from depending on if you're doing dungeon runs, playing solo or fighting bosses. For instance, swift/surecast on the PLD as an option.