Quote Originally Posted by Kowen View Post
If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?
if they don't have the defense and m-defense the other tanks have on the gear, then they can't compete. when their defense is actually locked behind the stance and without stance they are as squishy as any DD, nobody will take this job into the dps-meta gameplay.

and a huuuge amount of life to compensate isn't the answer either. that's unbalanced in regards to healer output and needs a bandaid-fix from the start, like a passive healbuff.

and all in all... i don't see any reason why a mage can't wear heavy armor.