Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
I'm more worried about Paladin becoming the only Tank, it's bad enough we are only going to have one healing class. If we only have one tank, making a party is gonna be a massive pain.
For now, more than likely it will be that way, but we will have jobs in the future that will also be able to tank or heal in their own way.

In FFXI, PLD was pretty much your only tank till people found a way to utilize NIN as a tank. WAR was meant to tank also, but lacked features that made them not as efficient. SAM was the same problem, they were meant to be a tank, but due to parrying being the hardest skill to level, it phased itself out as a tank very quickly.

Even got to the point in FFXI that people went PLD/NIN, and PLD became the only tank in a cookie cutter setup for events.

I believe the current developers know how to make a tank viable now, so we should expect another job to fulfill this role in the future.