A Perhaps too Elaborate Response to a Thread

This post is in response to: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/313646-what-I-hope-for-4.0-Battle-System?p=3982167&viewfull=1#post3982167

Did you know? Random chances of mitigation sucks, because it's too inconsistent.

Parrying and blocking aren't mandatory, but more of an "oh, it happened, okay" thing. Meanwhile, if a Scholar gets a Critical Adloquium, or a Black Mage gets off a Critical Fire IV? HELLA HYPE, HELLA AWESOME.

Why? Because people love big numbers. Showing people "You cast Fire IV. Critical! Ravana lost its HP bar." is much, much cooler than "Sophia walks up slowly, and tankbusters you in the face. You take some damage (reduced by some small amount from blocking/parrying) that could have been prevented, had there been a competent healer to stop it."

I'm not sure why you mention that DRK is a Job that rewards tanking, when WAR does that, as well.

In Defiance, we have Inner Beast, an attack that heals you for the exact same amount of damage you deal with it, and Steel Cyclone, a powerful AoE that hits around the Warrior (though I'm sure a cone, much like with Overpower, would promote good tanking, so that you can keep enemies spun). Both ignore the damage penalty from Defiance, but can only be used while Warrior has five stacks of Wrath, which you can get by doing your combos or certain actions.

Thus, we can see how WAR functions as a tank: Keeping enemies focused on them with POWERFUL COMBOS and SWEEPING SLAMS, as opposed to providing a tertiary resource to use for other, puny, and pitiful attacks. While they lack PLD's or DRK's mitigation, Defiance's HP bonus allows for a competent healer to keep them alive, and continue "buying time" for DPS, who will undoubtedly save the day with their own STRIKES of JUSTICE. (Of course, if someone else is playing the role of main tank, a good WAR is perfectly content with doing some good ol' FELL CLEAVE CRITS, as stacks of Wrath are automatically converted to stacks of Abandon when going from Defiance to Deliverance).