Need to put lock outs on over populated jobs.

When there are no tanks available, play as one.

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Originally Posted by Vlady

The tank shortage is getting worse and worse. It is funny seeing people queue though as healers and tanks to gear up dps. Any currency of tomes you aquire should be only allowed to be spent on the job/role you did the runs for.
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Terrible idea. Take this away, and you'll see people stop queuing on their alt tank (-1 tank in the player pool) and going on their dps (+1 dps in the player pool). Completely counter productive if you're trying to solve a tank shortage.

Your problem is you're using the duty finder.. Just find a smn to titan tank and grab 2 other dps and a healer and go. Its just as fast with a normal tank without all of the queing and drama.

I shout for a tank.. If one isnt available, i use what is to get the job done.

So people are shouting, need more tanks, need more healers! Well... where do you think they are going to come from? They could add 10 new tank and heal classes tomorrow, and there would still be a shortage because none of the DPS switched over. If you want more tanks, BE A TANK, you'll never be short one again.

Not enough Tanks.

Give people a reason to level it.
Give a 10% bonus on myth cap.

Do a run get 30 or 40 myth points. And 3 or 4 bonus that goes above the cap.
So 300 cap + bonus per week 30 or 40 extra points.


Another idea

Give tank or healer or DPS a bonus

DPS queue up in for 1 hour
Healer Queus up in for 30 min
DPS Queus up in for 15 mins
Tank queues up in queue for 15 seconds.

Longest in queue is base
Healer in for 30 min gets 10%
2nd DPS in for 15 gets 20%
Tank gets 30%

Above Cap.
This would reward who ever enter last more.

No bonus for progression.

This isn't to give Tank more point but to make people want to tank more.

I've started both a Healer and a Tank. Trust me both get a lot of flack if someone suddenly dies xD. Its annoying especially if its the DPS fault who stays in the attack range, gets hit and dies from an additional aoe swipe from the boss << Then cry that they aren't being healed.

Damage Dealers, if you think you can heal better please be healers, if you feel you can tank better, please be a tank xD. But stop whining when its your fault and your not trying to dodge.

We definitely need more tanks though.

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Originally Posted by Archona

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: start paying the good tanks on your server for runs.

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Originally Posted by Blarp

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LOL, couldnt have said it better my self, for the OP and this absurd suggestion above. rofl. now people have to pay tanks? lmao.

But i'll throw my 2 cents in anyway, any time you try to force people to play jobs they don't want nothing good comes out of it.

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Originally Posted by Volcano

LOL, couldnt have said it better my self, for the OP and this absurd suggestion above. rofl. now people have to pay tanks? lmao.

But i'll throw my 2 cents in anyway, any time you try to force people to play jobs they don't want nothing good comes out of it.

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Yes, because there are loads of tanks out there, we just have no reason to use the Duty Finder or participate in public groups. If you want a professional tank who knows what they are doing, a little gil goes a long way. Not sure what is so absurd about this. You don't HAVE to pay a tank, sure, roll the dice in Duty Finder instead. Keep on waiting in queues, I've got other stuff to do anyway. You don't HAVE to come onto the forums claiming there to be a tank shortage either.

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Originally Posted by Archona

Yes, because there are loads of tanks out there, we just have no reason to use the Duty Finder or participate in public groups. If you want a professional tank who knows what they are doing, a little gil goes a long way. Not sure what is so absurd about this. You don't HAVE to pay a tank, sure, roll the dice in Duty Finder instead. Keep on waiting in queues, I've got other stuff to do anyway. You don't HAVE to come onto the forums claiming there to be a tank shortage either.

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I find this ridiculous. You don't need to pay anyone to run things like AK/WP.... You don't even need a professional tank, just a tank with a brain and understanding how the game works... Another option is to just shout in Mor Dhona for tank, if you have a good run with them, add them to friend list and call them again when you need to run. Done.

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Originally Posted by Lemon8or

I find this ridiculous. You don't need to pay anyone to run things like AK/WP.... You don't even need a professional tank, just a tank with a brain and understanding how the game works... Another option is to just shout in Mor Dhona for tank, if you have a good run with them, add them to friend list and call them again when you need to run. Done.

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Yes, all viable options of course. Mor Dhona is better than using Duty Finder. Linkshells and Free Company are even better. However, the OP's point was that there is a tank shortage in the DF. I was just stressing that there ARE tanks out there, we just don't have a reason to do public DF groups at all.