Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
as in making a Tank without proper tanking tools THE actual challenge - is intentional then, sadly, isn't for me.
Blue Mage has more mitigation on demand than any other tank in the game.

Mighty Guard is 40% mitigation you get to have 100% of the time. Dragon Force is 40% mitigation in Tank Mimicry or 20% without. Chelonian Gate is 20%. Diamondback is 90%.

The only limitation on BLU mitigating attacks is its MP, and the "dedicated" cooldowns have recast timers of two or so minutes. Diamondback is effectively invulnerability, because in order to kill a level 70 BLU, the default damage on an attack would have to be set to deal close to 500,000 damage to kill you through it.

Enmity is no concern to a BLU. They may spam White Wind at the beginning of a fight with Mighty Guard up, and it will generate more enmity than a level 80 tank in tank stance.

Beyond that, if a BLU tank doesn't have the MP for Diamondback or its tank CDs are on cooldown, it may use the spell Assail in order to force damage onto the OT, basically a reverse form of Cover. They shouldn't need to, but they can.

BLU doesn't even need Tank Mimicry in order to tank. All Tank mimicry does is enhance a couple of cooldowns, and increased defenses x4. While very practical for a group situation, Healer Mimicry actually allows more power to BLU tanking because of the ability to heal yourself with a lot less MP, as well as apply your own shield with Gobskin whenever you want. Every % mitigator actually gains power when your defense is lower as well, because the more damage that is being dealt to you, the more damage is mitigated. THat's why % mitigation is a top shelf thing. As long as you can keep MP and enmity stable, BLU can tank anything in the game with no trouble at all.