SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

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With all this bickering, people are forgetting one fundamental rule of FFXIV. No one wants to play as a tank.

How are people forgetting this when it's brought up pretty much every page by people wanting SAM dps?

This line of thought also completely glosses over the numerous other benefits to adding another tank job even if it doesn't increase the tank population (which is just untrue as DRK has indeed inticed players who had never tanked before to at least try it.) It doesn't need them to stay as a tank to have a positive benefit on the game's health. A new tank leveling through the dungeons provides queue pops that wouldn't have been there before.

Starting to sound like a broken record here, but people with this mentality seem to never realise the negative side to if you let tanks get stale and not offer anything new. The tank numbers will go down. If you can't increase the tank numbers you at least want them to stay the same. But offering only new jobs for say the dps role will only shoot themselves in the foot.

Sometimes all it takes to get people to try something new is putting it in a shiny new wrapper. They never know if they might like tanking if they are uninterested in the current lineup. I was the same way before I tried tanking in another game and found out I enjoyed it. Not to mention the other benefits such as giving tank players more variety, giving them another job to level through dungeons thus providing more queues in the long run etc.

Sitting there and accepting that there will always be a shortage of tanks does not mean you don't do what you can to try and alleviate the issue in any way you can when the game needs something that important in order to sustain itself.