Thread: Idea for 4.0 Tank Class

Originally Posted by Calypsx

If the rumors are true and next expansion we are getting both Red Mage and Samurai I seriously doubt they are both going to be dps jobs. One is probably going to end up as a tank. Red Mage will probably be the sword dps.

I think a lot of people are calling for Samurai as DPS and Yoshi-P even said himself that he thinks that SAM should be DPS. While out of character, Red Mage could be a tank job with defensive spells and a high focus on parries and evasion. If a class that was devoted to sacrificing it's health for more damage (DRK) can be a tank, then so can a caster.

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.