According to the survey, an equal number of people play the tank and healer roles

[Selli]

OP, look at this image again. Yes. There is an equal amount for both healers and tanks. But there are only 38% of them total as opposed to 62% DPS. That means there is 24% MORE DPS classes playing/queuing than tanks and healers. Which means longer queue times for the majority while waiting for the minority, and more demand for the minority as well.

[Blindheart]

I don't see where all this hate on DF is coming from... All I ever do is group with randoms. I mostly tank since that gives the the bonus. Never have problems. Sometimes we may wipe a time or two on a boss, or from random stupidity. But we just pick up keep going and win. The people I usually see cause the problems are the ones that will bail because we are not playing "perfect" enough. Rage quitters, speed runners, people that think if you don't play their way then you automatically suck. Those are the issue. People that actually have patience and play for fun are the ones getting abused. Tank healer DPS, it don't matter the class.

[Mclyde]

Tank&Healer = big responsabilities (i'm not talking about gameplay difficulties)

All those tanks that you never see in DF, they come in as dps cause no one will say anything to them in particular. But as a tank, they are openly critizied : about stance, about pull size, about aggro loss, about his gear (HP, Str)
If there is 19% players that actively play tank in the game, half of them can't stand the possibility that they are going to be insulted or criticized.

Cause there is certainly as many bad tanks as bad dps/healer in %

[Nadirah]

All I know is the last time someone in my group wanted to kvetch at me about my tanking(I was still leveling), they got told by the healer to "STFU, you wanna bitch, you roll a tank and do it yourself".

I was proud of him. Lol.

[jomoru]

I wonder why I am spared the bad experiences then. Whenever I queue up for a trial or dungeon we rarely wipe. In fact the only thing I can remember wiping from in the past few weeks is when I got Bismark in the duty finder and that's it.

I'm curious as to peoples definition of "awful".

Because if you have one bad experience and 99 good ones the bad one sticks with you and thus ruins everything.

[jomoru]

Honesty you guys need to learn to read charts. Or at least put them in perspective. Fact: One of the most common Dps Jobs is the Dragoon. Fact; Every Dragoon has to have a level 15 Marauder leveled. They may never touch the class again but they are counted under the 19 percent of tanks. 19 percent of all characters aren't end game tanks. If you've hit end game iwth a tank there's very little reason to do leveling roulette.

If we had maybe more complete sets of data we could comment but we don't we have a broad list that doesn't even take into account the fact that a character could have everything unlocked and leave more of them at level 1.

[SasukeUchiha81]

I Qued up on my DRK for my daily, I got Fractal. This NIN.. Anyone know of Leroy Jenkins?, well if you haven't look it up.. I almost could of swore this NIN was him.. But anyway, he kept running ahead, pulling whatever he wanted and laying into it hard core. To a point I stopped and stared, but the WHM wouldn't stop healing him. I didn't want to cause a wipe so I protected the other DD and the WHM. I attempted a Vote kick, but the WHM said no. I just about left even though it was my daily, but instead I kept going but refused to do anything to take hate from the NIN, if the WHM wants him she/he can heal him so be it. In short, junk like this is why tanks don't want to Que in DF with randoms. So next time you see a DPS doing this, thank them ok!

[Azzie]

Fact; Every Dragoon has to have a level 15 Marauder leveled. They may never touch the class again but they are counted under the 19 percent of tanks.

Except the chart says between level 31-60, so unless every dragoon has marauder levelled to 31 (which I doubt) then those dragoons aren't counted in that 19%.

[SasukeUchiha81]

Actually the Chart accounts for this and only accounts for healers and tanks above lvl 31 - 60 You may need to read a little more!

[Gunspec]

When I was doing ex roulette, I was a PLD, wearing all full vit law accessories, got Fractal and before we move, the DRG peeked at me and said "LOL vit tank" and then left.
I've never had any problems tanking, some even say "your tanking was good", "no problems", "nah you don't need str accs" etc.
But it takes only that one person, that particular DRG, made me stop playing a tank.

If someone makes fun of your tanking in fractal, just "forget" about the chimera spawning. I've fed so many mouthy black mages to that thing, I've lost count.