I've been hearing "ninjas aren't supposed to be tanks in FFXI because the devs said so" since FFXI was released in NA, but no one ever comes up with a source. I've come to the conclusion this is just one of those things that have become the "truth" because its been repeated so many times.

Ninjas having the attention of the enemy, and then causing their attacks to hit inanimate objects after disappearing and reappearing somewhere else, is very common in japanese media. Its not that farfetched for them to turn ninjas into tanks in an MMO.

Anyways, i hope the people that raged when the devs turned BRDs into DPS aren't the same ones advocating RDMs to be turned into DPS. Both jobs were bottom of the barrel at dealing damage in the old-school games. Even a WHM was a better damage dealer because of Holy.