Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
I'm not sure FFXI is the best example to cite with regard to tanking. I don't know how it is nowadays, but for the longest time, tanking in XI was complete garbage.

The hate ceiling was ridiculously low and ridiculously easy to hit, meaning it wasn't long before hate was ping-ponging no matter what a tank did to try to bring it back under control. In addition to this, almost everything that mattered had a means of hate reset anyway.

There's a reason why many groups in FFXI eschewed tanks and simply just followed the "whoever does the most damage is the 'tank'" mindset. There's also a reason it was often joked that the best way to control your aggro as a DPS was to let yourself get killed.
Are you talking about the newer version of XI, when they raised the cap past 75? I heard that was the case at Lv99, but at Lv75, that was definitely not the case. But thats what happened when someone else took over the game, and changed things.