How to make tanking more rewarding?

I love playing as tank and in most cases it's easier to play as tank rather as healer or dps. In my opinion SE did not handle the tank reward system very well. They put a tank only achievement (the mount one) but this requires only high lvl full party duties and this does not help the situation for all the 50 and <50 dungeons. They should put another achievement which rewards tanks for playing all this content or helping others in the low lvl dungeons. The extra gils on roulette is nice but it's not enough. Another thing that may help is making tanks "cooler" to play. This may include new or better skill animations which will not break the class balance. I think tanks need a better reward system.

Tanking reward should be tier 1 - 4 crit/det materias depends on content ^^

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Originally Posted by Sunako

Tanking reward should be tier 1 - 4 crit/det materias depends on content ^^

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No. Definitely not. Way too unbalanced. ^^

They already buffed the adventurer in need gil reward for low level roulette from 4500 to 7500.

I main a tank, I use it in my static or FC runs.

I also have a dps I use when puging.

It's nothing to do with numbers, fear of making mistakes, responsibility, or many of the other things mentioned. I just don't like asshats who rage just because I go too slow, too quick, miss a chest, don't miss a chest, full clear, don't full clear, etc.

Easier to wait a little longer in the queue and let somebody else deal with that.

Tanking is easy, Handling a party full of incompetent people is not.

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Originally Posted by Yhoiryo

playing is easy, Handling a party full of incompetent people is not.

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FTFY
/10char

I don't think the big numbers will help, by thinkin this you are looking the tanking role in a dps way. And tanking is another thing.
I like tanking because it's a controlling role.
People prefer dealing dmg, it's a fact and you'l never change it.

tank in FFXIV : deal less dmg and make of glass
DPS in FFXIV : deal more dmg and make of super thin glass <--------- this one sound more fun

@on topic: the reward are fine for tanker, if ppl don't want to play tank, they don't want to play tank, simple as that. Add more reward "might" solve issue for queue (it is not like it is an issue anyway) for DFR but after that, they will go back to what they like, the problem remain

Playing Warrior on the side; I think it's more the general fear of having too much responsibility in a party and or getting blamed for mishaps. I've been playing the job mostly for duty roulette and haven't encountered many, I can't remember any right now, people complaining about anything. I'm not doing speed runs most of the time and not every 'pull' is perfect but the majority of random people I've played with never complained...

Personally I think it's already quite rewarding, the adventurer in need bonus, the mostly instant queues and the feeling of helping people getting through content (especially if you play low-level roulette or story).
Though some nice glamours wouldn't hurt, especially for Warriors, not job specific mind you but something that fits the Warrior style, many current pieces fit more the Paladin with all their plates. I'd like to see more armour in the style of Warrior's AF gear.

I'd love to see some more really cool axes for warrior. Paladins get a lot of cool swords to choose from (Allagan, High Allagan, Ifrit, Garuda, Levi, Odin, Ramuh, and Shiva swords are super rad IMO) but I feel like a lot of the axes are boring in comparison. I'd like to see more variety I guess.