Good afternoon all! I have been playing FFXIV since near the end of AAR, just before Heavensward. I always played DPS of one sort or another. The last time I played a tank was back in WoW The Burning Crusade as a Paladin. Lately my friends have been egging me on to level a tank up and try tanking for them. I resisted at first as I've not tanked for what feels like eons, but finally gave in. I currently have Dancer, Black Mage, Machinist and Red Mage at 80 and keep going back to Dancer, been loving it.

I started with a Gunbreaker,.. it's the new pretty class and looked fun. I got it to about 74 before I resisted and went back to DPSing. Started a Dark Knight and got it to 72 then switched to Paladin at 74 now. My big question is this.. How are Tanks now days? is there one better than another? they all seem pretty balanced, just some of them better at one thing or another. Let me know what you think and who's best at what, I'm working on an answer myself but I wanted to see what you all think about the state of the tanks right now. thanks!