You can bring back one thing removed from tanks. What do you bring back?

[SargeTheSeagull]

I’ve been watching old vids of stuff from HW/SB as that’s when I started and I felt like having a pang of nostalgia. Tanks have had a lot removed over the years like positioning enemies a lot, more specialized mitigation kits, less homogenous DPS kits, aggro management, the list goes on really. So what from yesteryear’s tank design would you bring back?

[Enkidoh]

PLD having access to certain Conjury spells like Protect. It helped me out more times than I care to admit.

[TheDustyOne]

Damage and defence interplay, or otherwise sacrificing DPS in favour of defence when a situation calls for it. It doesn't necessarily have to be stance dancing, it could also be a part of a kits resources or from branching combos. I dislike that we feel extremely tanky by default, and I'd love to have some level of riskier play where I can sacrifice defence for extra damage or vice versa. It'll also give healers the extra healing they're asking for.

Aggro management would be a second choice, although I wouldn't want to rely on DPS using their enmity tools just to be able to contribute damage myself, enmity management should remain a mostly tank-only thing if it came back. I wouldn't mind however if one or two jobs had enmity utility, like if Monk or Dragoon had an enmity grab for when things go REALLY south and had to tank for a short time while healers pick the actual tanks off the floor. I don't mind managing aggro and so I'd be okay if it returned in some form.

[Burmecia]

Cover which gives some mitigation on the side.

[ICountFrom0]

Revive on paladins, was in 1.0 I hear.

[Oizen]

Old Abyssal Drain on Dark Knight.

[Doozer]

Flash. For everyone.

[Baxcel]

I'd bring back Dark Knight as a class... right now we have War(over powered) War2(trash) PLD and GNB for choices..

[Sani2341]

Different Stances on WAR only, and the connected Switch between inner beast and fell cleave.

[Zairava]

I'm seemingly a part of the smaller group who enjoyed the enmity management, but as time goes on...I view the homogenization as a bigger issue.

I wouldn't be nearly as mad if they didn't completely neuter DRK at the same time they ALSO completely gutted the role.

Before anything, I want them to make the tanks actually feel like they have their own playstyle again, starting with DRK. GNB's has only survived because it released in Shadowbringers.