Dear Yoshi P Tank Mount will not help....

[SpookyGhost]

That said, why don't so many people play tanks? I know some say they're boring, but that's just... wrong. War is amazing when played right, being able to set the pace and being the main bad A taking all the hits is fun!

Not many people want that kind of responsibility. 9 times out of 10 if a wipe happens, regardless of who's fault it is, the tank or the healer will get blamed. You're afforded no screw ups which can be pretty stressful if you're ever not sure what to do. On top of that, a lot of people just like being a DPS class as they see big numbers, have very little responsibility, and all their attack animations tend to be flashy in some way. There's a lot more appeal to playing a DPS than to play a tank, unfortunately.

[Doo]

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I queue for only in progress now so main is fast.

The issue is with the role itself. Tanks get most of the rage if they don't know the fight 100 percent. Try going into a fight like Garuda EX and not knowing how to deal with every mechanic and you'll most likely get raged on. There's too much responsibility in tanking and the reason why most mmos have low tank issues. Not sure if any amount of incentive will work really.

[Thorauku]

You don't even know yet how the Tank would get the special mount for them.

Assumptions assumptions.

[Thunderz]

Problem you say!

Solution you ask?

Mounts for everyone! everyone loves mounts o.o

[Arkista]

Snip.

And this is why people need to grow up. If a wipe happens learn from your mistake, Man up, And go again. But seeing as how Children play this game more than adults I guess it's to hard. Kid will be Kids. Tired of seeing "I'm Elite one death and your out" it's so silly and makes the game less enjoyable. I even suggested they add a new Tank Job when they add Musketeer just so we could get some more Tanks cause a lot of people don't like WAR/PLD.

You don't even know yet how the Tank would get the special mount for them.

Assumptions assumptions.

Well I think you missed the point on that. SE thinks adding in a new Mount for a Tank Class will get players to play Tank for content we need them in. When in fact that a majority will level the class just for the mount. So how is adding a new mount going to help the tank shortage? It doesn't. If someone doesn't want to play a Tank Now why would they want to after they got the mount? Now there may be some players who level the job for the mount and actually like it and keep playing but as I said a lot will do it just for the mount and never touch the job again.

[ApolloGenX]

I am working on leveling a tank, and it isn't fun. Every fight feels like a struggle to keep aggro from either overzealous or overgeared (roulette) dps.

I feel like I only have a few aggro tools and if flash is resisted or whatever... I am just standing there, mashing buttons while everyone else gets killed.

If they are going to make this a super casual game all over the place, then might as well make tanks holding aggro super easy and give them other fun stuff to do. The skills are boring, the LB is terrible, holding aggro is a pain... I mean - what do they expect?

[XanderOlivieri]

Yeah that wouldn't work to get people to play tanks, only to level them. That said, why don't so many people play tanks? I know some say they're boring, but that's just... wrong. War is amazing when played right, being able to set the pace and being the main bad A taking all the hits is fun!

That's just your opinion though. I find Tanks to be the most boring of the class sets. Nothing about Tanks appeals to me. I do play Healer in group combat so I get my fair share of responsibility and harassing remarks when I can't keep the Tank alive due to a bad call or DPS not being fast enough to eliminate mobs. I mean I just shrug off the nay say cause when people wipe, unless it was intentional its everyone fault. Even if a Magic Tank were to be added in, I'd raise it to max cap just because its a Magic based class, but I will never play it in group play.

[SpookyGhost]

I feel like I only have a few aggro tools and if flash is resisted or whatever... I am just standing there, mashing buttons while everyone else gets killed.

Only the blind from Flash can be resisted - the aggro effect always works as long as the skill goes off. But yeah, early on it's really hard to hold aggro off equally or better geared DPS. That will change once you get access to the third hit in your enmity combo, though.

[PureEclipse]

Why not bring musketeer in and have it branch off into a heavy utility dd that places turrets and other neat craft like things down er something and than have the other branch be gunblade for tanking...it would draw interest id think if A the tank isn't so cookie cutter looking with a more unique looking weapon set, and B Who doesn't want a gunblade in their arsenal?? Plus C, if the GunBlade style was more reliant on evasion and dps and less on PURE tanking maybe it might interest more people...I dunno

or hell just let the tanks fight on the mounts??

[Sotek]

I leveled Warrior out of boredom on the Duty Roulette (doing the same for all clases).

Now that I have it leveled, I'll always end up using it on the high level Duty Roulettes for the sake of the extra bonus. Once I've leveled everything, the same will hold for low level Duty Roulettes. I don't see why anybody who's leveled a tank wouldn't use it for the bonus to be honest, and the Duty Roulette is where they want tanks.