Quote Originally Posted by Xoo View Post
Um, so you're saying that having that 'other' tank as an option was a bad thing?
That other tank wasn't an option for 90% of content. Why couldn't the two types of tanks be equal, or at least as close to equal as possible, in all content?

You do realize how hard it was to find a single Paladin when you needed one?
Do you know why? It was because nobody wanted to level a Paladin, because nobody in exp parties cared to have a Paladin tank. Everyone wanted a Ninja, and it was directly reflected in the end-game population of tanks.

Perhaps it wasn't Utsusemi alone that negated the usefulness of other subs - rather, the uselessness of said subs.
No, /NIN negated the other subs because Utsusemi was so far above the other abilities that other subs provided, that you would be f**king stupid not to take it. It gave you no-brainer, easy-mode defenses for tanks and exponentially higher damage for DPS classes. There was no other sub that you could use, because they were all s**t by comparison.