So we heard that there were not enough tanks..

[HiirNoivl]

All of those plds are warriors who cannot progress through coil because their healers hate them.

Or can't progress through Coil because people assume they suck and/or won't give strategies that make a WAR useful and depend on Hallowed Ground for wins.

[Tzain]

It's not just the DPS, I always planned on leveling a Tank, but when I got my Conjurer to 50 and couldn't find groups for lack of tanks I realized I needed to prioritize my tank-class.
Of course since I level it exclusively in dungeons I guess I'm part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

[ZephyrK]

Now the question is: How many of those people will actually play those tanks at level 50, and for how long?

[Yarem]

Most of them wont stay for long after they recognice that tanking isn't as easy as dpsing and after getting oneshotted a few times because they dont evade and lacking situational awarness the will go back to dps. Some of them will stay and move to guildgroups after the first pugs and maybe learn something from this expierience.

DF Titan yesterday and told the warrior to tank after it was clear we will never will made it past hearth phase (best try 40% left) and only get hit once by bad placed weights and never get hit by landslide/bombs where dps was failing left and right... even my tries with dps showed that most dps classes are easy going and not even as unforgiving like tanking.

[Mjollnir]

So we heard that there were not enough tanks..

...so we put your tanks on a tank so you could tank while tanked?

[Choyi]

All of those plds are warriors who cannot progress through coil because their healers hate them.

They better just get competent healers then.

[HiirNoivl]

Tanking is fun. I'm leveling a PLD tank alt (I'll have WAR AF2,AF3... on Hiir and PLD AF2,AF3 on my Alt) and I'm having a blast on PLD.

It plays a lot differently from WAR, due to the fact that every boss I'm trying to see just what Debuffs I can put on it, and I'm finding out the limits of flash (and the limits of my patience for Bane-happy DF SMNs). I'm also finding out how wasted Cover is on most PLD. Cover is wonderful.

People don't use it enough.

[Meshico]

I am a 24 GLD and I only level in dungeons...but then again my goal's are different it would seem. I want that plundered/cavaliers gear and even the doctore's uglyness.

But any who sometime in the future, SE has already stated that doing dungeons will be better exp than Fates so hopefully that will encourage people to do dungeons again. Especially at those level's 30-49! lol those are the fastest for me as tank/whm to get into dungeons

[Pseudopsia]

I remember my northern Thanalan fate party when I was grinding DRG. I would invite anyone who wanted in a fate party. Most of the time we had 4 tanks, lot of them were warriors. At one point we had 5 tanks, however one of them was DC.

[Arkista]

I'm on Excalibur Server and I leveled PLD over the last week. Sat And Sun I was out there and almost every person I invited was PLD or WAR no joke. So there should be about 30+ more new tanks from Excalibur.