Disciple of Magic Tank?

[Beelz]

Ready for this? Final Fantasy X-2's Dressphere - "Psychic". A spellcasting tank with lots of creative potential! If you've never played FFx-2, the Psychic job focuses on stat boosts, guards, and basically being untouchable by negative status modifiers.

Picture: Mighty Guard like abilities cast on allies, status defects on enemies generating enmity. Floating, they could be stationary or glide around. In FFx-2 they have "Eater" abilities, so elemental damage instead heals them; could be like a placed AoE making party members absorb a percentage of elemental damage taken. Psychics can Teleport: instead of Shield Lob they dash into a mob with a flashy spell; or they can Teleport out (without breaking enmity) forcing enemies to chase them.

I mean, it's officially in a Final Fantasy canon job in a game which includes Samurai, Dark Knight, and other old favorites. I think if any of the developers are taking notes, they've got a lot of chances to mess around with Psychics.

[Beelz]

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Here's a video of the Psychic-ers from FFX-2 for reference.

[Canadane]

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[MyaValentine]

Ready for this? "Psychic".

you wrote "Blue Mage" Wrong.

[Tint]

we already have Dark Knight as the magic tank. Dark Arts, Abyssal Drain, Unleash, Unmend, Blackest Knight... all magic stuff. the last hit of the enmity combo has also an animation with a magic attack.
then we have Paladin, wich also uses magic to heal and attack.

do we really need a third tank with magic stuff?

[Freyyy]

I actually think that we'd need a second physical-only tank (WAR currently is the only one). No magic stuff, only purely physical abilities. With muscles and stuff.

[Moogly]

A cloth wearing tank will indeed look strange.
May be something like a beast master will fit the role more.

[Lambdafish]

they can Teleport out (without breaking enmity) forcing enemies to chase them.

You just upset every single person who plays melee DPS in the game

[Isala]

A cloth wearing tank will indeed look strange.

Cloth tank has actually been done quite a few times in various games. SWTOR, for instance, has their Assassin tank, which wore the lightest armor, but gained massive defenses through their tank stance. The issue with that here, is that the Assassin stayed in their tank stance because it was required for their rotation to even work. Here, we switch stances all the time. There are times where we even stay in DPS stance as much as possible to push out as much damage as we can, and if a tank cannot do what the other three tanks are capable of, due to their non-tank stance being oneshot by boss autoattacks, then there is no reason at all for the class to even be brought to an instance.

That being said, there could be a passive trait that would give it massively increased defense ratings, even out of stance, and that would function just as well, but at that point, why not just stuff it into heavy armor anyway?

[Moogly]

Isala
When I think about it yea, in the other big mmo, druids wear leather, and at some point, warlock transforming into overpowered demons could have eventually evolved into a tank spec (it might even be the case now, havent logged in there for more than a year XD)