Quote Originally Posted by Maeka View Post
I have all the tank classes on Level 73+ (PLD is 80).

I'd have to say that PLD is probably the "best" as far as playing a class that actually feels like a tank. You have several buttons that directly mitigate damage to fellow group members:

Cover
Passage of Arms
Divine Veil
Clemency

With all of these tools, PLD just feels more like an actual tank, the guy that keeps the damage on himself rather than group members. No other tank has this many buttons to mitigate damage done to the rest of the group, and the other tanks just feel like DPS who take less damage than the actual DPS jobs.

I have saved way more lives as PLD than I have with any other tank class. Throwing a Cover on someone with 3 stacks of Vuln before an unavoidable AoE... throwing up Passage of Arms during Innocence after people completely screwed up the add phase (and we barely survived!), tossing that Clemency on a healer who's about to die. It just feels good when you save someone's life with these buttons, because that's what a tank is really meant to do.
See, I love doing ALL of this stuff. When I can get it done in time >_< . You're right, it just FEELS tanky, Why do I have the feeling I'm gonna end up leveling pally and warrior >_> lol