Quote Originally Posted by CaedemSanguis View Post
For instance I dont find DRG/RPR/VIP harder or easier than GNB or DRK in terms of dps optimization

I invite you to clear DSR P7 as a tank, or TOP P6, or even any criterion savage dungeon

Yeah that's fair, a good tank should care about positionnals but dps also have tools
I can't stress that enough, before claiming not being able to see a job responsibility, one should always experience the game as that role before making any claims on it.
Imagine if people started to downplay the difficulties of jobs such as garbage collector because they "only collect garbage and put them on a truck".

I've played Reaper and Viper in high-end content, I can confidently say they don't feel harder than any tanks.
Mitigation timing is important especially with the 15s long mitigation that can cover many hits. In Savage it's a bonus, in Ultimate it's necessary.
Bonus, in M3S and M4S, you can have your melees greed safely GCDs by putting short cooldowns on them, see the Divebomb or when M4S breaks the platform.

Positionning shouldn't be downplayed, I've seen too many tanks who have no idea about positionning and thinking "it's not important the melee can deal with it anyway".