Quote Originally Posted by IzumiOgata View Post
You do know that when we are on tanking stance we generate nearly 4x as much aggro per dmg point compared to others, right?
I do, as I played DRK for HW content. The problem is: Even with that, as a DRK at least, when I ran Temple of the Fist on my friend character while he was on my RDM (He's very good at learning DPS rotations and nuances to optimize damage), I had to literally spam Unleashed on every pull even with Grit on all the time because the damage spikes were insane, so he'd keep jumping up a lot in the aggro table. And this will only get worse, as DPS damage will get too high at some point, while tank damage won't grow at a comparable rate.

And that's the reason we need only a fourth of the playing base to be tanks, at most, and even then, only half of it needs to act like leaders even when talking about savage/ex content. It's a daunting task for a reason, and a bunch of people get a thrill from leading the fray, tanking is for those types of people. I'm not saying that every tank should be a leader, but if you're tanking you're expected to act like one cause that's what the job calls for.
I would be inclined to agree with you if: A fourth of the player base indeed wanted to play like that (Which definitely isn't the case, as even with, as I said, a big part of the tank players not wanting that, DPS queues are insanely long), and if they didn't make one of the most popular jobs in FF history, which has always been a DPS-Like Job, into a Tank. And I don't know about your experience with other MMORPGs out there, but I played tanks in pretty much all of the ones I played (With the exception of XI), and never was I required to be a leader while tanking, just to charge first into the enemies... So other players that come from other games, that don't expect tanks to be leaders, will come to this game wanting to tank and not lead. (Btw, tanking and leading are two completely different things altogether, as most "leaders" in history or fiction don't even go to the frontlines...)