Shortage of Tank .......

[Makior72]

I main paladin personally, but I only use it these days to farm myth tomes or help ppl out. I have no incentive to repeat old content as my paladin and I don't really want to lvl warrior right now. If I had a reason to go back and do these instances, I would, and so would others.

[Amyas]

All I want is a taunt, just one ability a taunt. I lose threat ALL THE TIME and once I do, there isn't any getting it back.

I swear dps out threat me, and healers do better aoe threat then I do. I don't know if it's just low level threat that has problems, but something isn't right with the games threat mechanics.

(Overpower) (You can have this)

Also, try picking up flash and provoke from Gladiator if you're intent on staying on the path of the Axe. You'll get the hang of it in no time if you put the effort into learning every aspect of the class, as well as learning how much enmity your team mates generate with certain skills.
Also, incase you didn't see my 'double edit', there is a threat meter next to your party member's names on the left side, helps a ton in hate management.

[Scratchs]

I'm a lvl 50 pld and I can't really upgrade my armor without mythology or coil stuff, not too much incentive to play dungeons like the last poster said. If i was a fresh pld I'd probably avoid DF because there are so many abusive people out there.

I'd seriously would not want to be a fresh lvl 50 trying to gear up right now, so many relic people out there who love to complain :/

I would like to play lower dungeons on my pld but I feel like its showboating or being a jack@$$ wearing fancy armor in copper bell mines.

[Accolades]

I am a paladin and frankly I don't enjoy tanking these dungeons there too long for the minimal reward and the huge amount of babysitting it has not the mention the wipes cause people don't think they should look into boss encounters beforehand. Sure you can explain fights but they don't listen and wipe anyway.

[LadyZola]

Yeah this is why I changed my main class from pugilist to warrior, the queue times were so long (even for the first dungeons)

The good thing is that I actually am enjoying the hell out of warrior!

[Moirear]

Plenty of tanks at the lower levels, usually pre-level 20 dungeons. Then they must get fed up with the verbal abuse when they're not playing perfectly, and switch to other classes.

Just saying because I started out on GLD and leveling up to eventually build a PLD later, and I've noticed that tanking doesn't get you insta-queued until you reach some level over 20.

The other reason is because the fewer the tanks, the more they are in demand with their friends and/or FCs, so they tend to gravitate away from random DF groups automatically.

[MichuAmane]

There is no excuse to abuse any player. I am sure dps can do all they can to minimize agro but... Quelling sometimes isn't enuff too long cool down. So u want me to wait to hit and then aoe no don't aoe but u have to kill this fast but stop using flare but kill it fast but slow ur roll. It is like playing with a split personality disorder. It's a two way street with courtesy. How about up front at start of instance you talk about ur objectives and what u can reasonably do and what you reasonably expect. As the tank i will defer to ur wishes since i cannot tank it, but don't ask for miracles either.My static tank can handle me triple flaring and i love it, but i don't expect anyone else to.
Perhaps gear matching is the way to go a tank with gc should not be with a relic +1, and vice versa.
just my opinion

[Rhas]

Could say something about healers and how they treat tanks but tbh it's not as bad as the DPS.

I thought the same thing... until I ran into this one healer. He kept running in front of me (as the tank) and using his instant to pull groups mobs before we were even grouped up. After "pulling*, he then proceeded to run in large circles... away from me. (keep in mind that this was in sastasha, the very first story dungeon) After wiping a few times on the trash mobs to the first boss, I just had to leave and suck up the 15 min DF wait time.

[Rhas]

(Overpower) (You can have this)

Also, try picking up flash and provoke from Gladiator if you're intent on staying on the path of the Axe.

Lol I even had flash (provoke is higher level than the 1st 3 story dungeons) Overpower only works if you can get in range (which shouldn't be an issue but sometimes is)

[Genjisamurai]

Its funny because every FC I see is FULL of Tanks and healers...