Glam challenge/request: Lvl 50 PLD “mage tank.”

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EDIT: I got a great glam, thank you for all your help!

I'd like to thank everyone that posted in this thread. I ended up discovering the perfect glam for my "mage tank," on the axis of his headcanon/other-universe existence as a "vampire," and threw together the vampire cape (didn't know it existed before), the Halicarnassus sword, emporer's new shield and claws of the beast to turn him into a gorgeous gothy rapier tank! Between the site suggestions and item suggestions in this thread, I now have an excellent concept for my "archmage alt" to tank in!

Thanks again for all your good ideas and intel!

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Hello again glamour experts and enthusiasts! This forum recently provided me with some wonderful answers to my inquiry requesting “Jian glams” for a blade dancer alt of mine, and now I have a new challenge for you!

A bit of backstory: when I first discovered FFXIV in the 2.0 era, I was adamant that I should only ever have one character, and so I used an “Archmage” OC from my roster of reusable characters, under the idea that “it’s all aether manipulation” which I classified as magic. You see, I love tanking, so I needed someone that could conceptually be all forms of magi and also tank, and at the time the most magical tank was Paladin, so he sat at 50 Paladin once I left the game, still in the ARR era.

Fast forward to now, and I have 6 characters: one Omnijob with a job agnostic glam, and five alts made specifically to get the most out of duty support (trusts on their own as a system brought me back to FFXIV in ShB) and to wear all the artifact gear that my main will never wear.

My Archmage is now approaching level 50 in all the casting classes, (all the alts are parked waiting for Heavensward duty support) and is still sitting at 50 Paladin. All my other alts center their concept around the tank job I’ve allocated to them. My “blade dancer” I mentioned in my other thread is allocated to being my pure Paladin.

…But I’d still like my Archmage to have a tanking spec, for pushing the MSQ and killing trial queues.

So that brings me to my request: How would you dress a “mage tank Paladin” at level 50 within the following parameters:

-again, gear must be level 50 or lower
-weapon doesn’t *necessarily* need a matching shield, as I’m likely getting the emporer’s new shield again
-Reasonably accessible at 50 by a level 50 without crazy crack content… unless a friend could desync something with me. I do have access to such a person.
-A rapier might be nice to play off the fact that he also uses a rapier as a red mage

There are a lot of options that will unlock as I level, of course, but the fun with these alts is in the journey, so I’d like something to start him off in. I’m thinking of defaulting to the wild rose garb, but I’m open to other suggestions, mostly for weapons! I’d love to pick your imaginative brains for things I may not have thought of!

Also, feel free to recommend “down the road” later level items if they are reasonably accessible. Again, this is a very casually focused alt!

Thanks in advance for any and all helpful replies, and thank you for reading!