What could DRK have learned from FFXI?

[Izsha]

Anything with / Ninja was a tank in the 75 era. Yes, they could tank some IT crabs in B. Tree, matter fact it was a common strategy to have 1-4 DPS with /nin, a brd, a rdm, or a healer. The DPS would then bounce hate to minimize damage. At level 75 with apoc, DRK could then tank due to the Haste from cata and the fact that it restored health. They were also more than likely tanking anything that was not a HNM due to the simple fact your zerged it down and they put out the most dps. The only reason PLD and RDM were taken to those to main tank by most people was due to the fact that PLD had Ageis and RDM at the time could buff itself and had a stupid amount of Magic defense bonus, because Magic damage and status effects are the two major threats in any fight in FF11. It's also apart of the reason why Rune Fencer is considered an over powered job atm as well. :O

Literally everyone in the party bouncing aggro around every couple hits is not tanking. Thats the conplete antithesis of tanking. Spreading enemy attacks evenly between the entire party and being in that party is not tanking.

And as i said, they were just as 'tanky' as literally any other job that can pile on damage reduction and, since you brought it up, /nin. That doesnt make drk a tank. Based on that logic, literally every job in ffxi was a tank. Mnk? Tank. Sam? Tank. Thf? Tank. Bst? Tank. Whm? Tank.

Stating that drk had the same tanking capability as basically anyone for low man situations or bouncing aggro all over does not make an argument for drk being an actual tabk or have any relevance to what 14 could take from xi. Tanking a zerg is also not tanking. Its literally a dog pile of dps with ridiculous buffs attacking a monster that is stun locked and unable to hit back and killing it before you ran out of stuns. Were calling that tanking now?

Tanking is maintaining monster aggression and mitigating the damage it outputs better than everyone else around you thus making it more efficient for X job to tank it. Ie: to tank you must be markedly better at mitigating damage and maintain aggro. Merit party bouncing aggro with everyones ninja shadows isnt tanking. Zerging a atunned monster isnt tanking. Low manning some mediocre difficulty content with tailered gear and sub jobs that virtually any job can also tank woth tailered gear and sub jobs does not a tank make.

Drk was a dps job. Ffxi was a flexibke game that let every job take small steps out of their primary role for low man activities . That was a great and fun part of the game. But it didnt make every job a tank jist because you can /nin with haste buffs on any job anymore than whm was a dps because you could offhand a k club.