Quote Originally Posted by Niyuka View Post
SE cannot afford to just shrug off the waiting times. They have to do SOMETHING.
Problem is, they're not the only ones to blame for that. It's well know that less people love tanking and healing than DPSing, because of the burden and the responsability (And also the fact that DPS are quick to blame them for everything...)

They give several bonuses as an incentive, faster XP, more gils, special mounts, etc...but in the end, they can't do that much. Back in 2.x, PLD was everything but an overloaded playstyle, yet people didn't tank more.

From a certain point of view, it's like PvP. I'm not a big fan of PvP, but, truth be told, when I tried, it was fun. But the queue times can be horrendously long. Why ? Because few people participate in PvP. And few people participate partly because the queue times are long, and the queue times are long because...
Quote Originally Posted by Niyuka View Post
The game is called WoW, and it has solved at least parts of its tank crisis long ago, by going the route we go now.
Isn't WoW the game where it was not uncommon to have a tank leading the parse in raids ?