Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
You can get behind all those different ideas of "tanking" and yet the thought of a ninja using shadow clones to take hits enrages you? I don't understand...
The thought of a "ninja" being given the role of drawing as much attention to itself as possible and taking damage in the stead of its party members enrages me. The only reason that people have even the slightest inclination towards ninjas being tanks is because, as previously mentioned, the devs made a mistake in FFXI that the players ran with as part of their metagame so that the devs couldn't correct it without completely altering said metagame.

I have no issue with an avoidance tank. The problem is that Ninja *should not* be an avoidance tank. It should be a DPS with some baseline avoidance functionality. Monk has self heals; Ninja has avoidance. Hell, common consensus is that Ninja should be a job based off of Thief and, if it's the baseline job for Thief, which it most likely *would* be, unless you believe that *Thief* should be a tank job, it makes no sense for Ninja to be so.