Omnitank fatigue...not sure what happened

[Hysorn]

I feel you there, the only class fantasies that I enjoy in this game are Paladin and Dark Knight but the truth is... Tanking isn't exactly fun, for the most part you are a DPS but with a very simplified rotation and this is including end-game content, particularly noticeable when you are off-tanking where at most you will throw your "use on ally" defensive on either the mt or someone that needs it.

In my opinion, yeah, there is something missing, tanking itself, as in the job of the role doesn't exactly require much, in dungeons you run wall to wall grabbing everything and in raids/trials you do your rotation while in some instances, switching aggro with your co-tank. The only shared mechanic between those two types of content are tank busters which are very easy to tell when they are coming and it after a while it isn't even hard to manage MP on DRK for instance because you know more or less when the tankbuster will be coming out, especially in Endwalker.

The class design is... Not gonna lie, pretty bad right now, in my opinion, obviously. You are a glorified DPS, but when you compare your rotation to say Ninjas, Black Mages, hell even Bard, you have a very simple and static rotation, often having moments of "Press this one button multiple times just because" whereas DPS rotations are usually busy while sometimes sporting procs that make you react to it rather than just turning your brain off and doing your rotation and the raid mechancis on auto-pilot, likewise, you don't have to worry nearly as much in failing mechanics because more often than not you can survive mechanics that one shots healers and DPS, I am sure you probably heard someone joking "Tank privileges" after you failed a mechanic and just brushed it off like nothing happened while playing with friends or pugging end game content.

I don't know, this is just my two cents, when I started getting tired of tanking I tried getting my hand on DPS and healers, but the class fantasies available just don't scratch that itch for me, even if the gameplay enjoyment is miles ahead of tank jobs. Lately I've been less and less invested in FFXIV because of it.

(Also, I got too spoiled by fast queues to enjoy being a DPS player. Leveling a DPS job is basically 10 mins of dungeon, 15 of wait rinse and repeat)