Why Don’t You Tank Poll

[Cakekizyy]

I don't like how taznking works in this game, but often tanked in other games.

[Laerune]

I like tanking for newcomers and my friends, but when tanking for randoms in level 70 content, I tend to get treated like a dog on a leash: "go fast, go slow, pull this, pull that", its fine at first, but after a while, one get can get fed up with it. I have decided to just avoid tanking those content when playing with strangers.

It also does not help that alot of players are either clueless or slacking.

[MoroMurasaki]

I do tank (I mean, at least a bit, WAR is into the 60's now) but the stress is what kept me from it for so long.

As someone who started this game as a healer tanking feels so incredibly underpowered. As a healer in any casual content you can avoid so many wipes for a variety of reasons. As a DPS you can contribute considerably to the speed of the dungeon and provide some supoort to the group, particularly in lower level dungeons when you might get a poor group. I just tanked Tam-Tara on DRG for instance.

Tanks don't get that. They might be able to solo a reasonable portion of a boss with self-heals but a good healer can usually stop that situation from arising anyways.

Basically, I'm a control freak and tanks have the least control when it comes to the quality of the run in casual content.

[BluexBird]

As a tank main, I'll just say this - no matter how boring or stressful you think tanking might be, it sure as HELL beats waiting over 20 minutes just to get inside a dungeon. When all you want to do is get roulettes out of the way, I literally don't care how interesting or fun DPSing might be.

[Selova]

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This why whenever I'm doing any queuable content on my dps jobs I'm always doing something else in the background, like playing visual novels, leaving only the system sounds on so I can hear when my queue pops. I don't think I'd retain my sanity otherwise.

[basketofseals]

I'll wait until there's a DoM tank. Until then none of the current jobs interest me.

[Cakekizyy]

This why whenever I'm doing any queuable content on my dps jobs I'm always doing something else in the background, like playing visual novels, leaving only the system sounds on so I can hear when my queue pops. I don't think I'd retain my sanity otherwise.

I do that too, but often don't hear it and get withdrawn.

[Vstarstruck]

There should be a why don't you heal poll more then tank. Talking to someone that has a lot of different jobs leveled since I do not:

"I do not mind tanking as much as healing, even if both can have stressful moments. As a tank, I have to think how skilled the healer is and if they know what they are doing, along with the DPS having enough know how to do AoE rotations to kill stuff fast enough so the healer is not overburdened.

For healing, I hate solo queueing as healer this point. The run that broke the camels back, sort of speak was killing groups so slow, I was able throw up a vote abandon up, since all 3 of them was the reason it was slow. They rejected the vote and kick me out short time later, when I found they where a premade, being same fc and server. I am simply tired of tanks that do not know pulls, know what a CD is, and DPS that know how to dps. So I just queue as DPS as I do other things so I can have my hand in 14-18 min expert runs, not 30 min +. Tired of playing healer and expected to carry everyone"

[Moomba33]

Tanking is my weakest role by far. I find I end up getting distracted or stressed by something in the fight and end up just spamming my aggro combo instead of using all my tools.
I generally only tank for friends or while leveling the jobs when new expansions drop. I prefer staying in tank stance and doing single to double pulls and I know that pace is too slow for the community at level cap.
Lately I've been tanking Trial Roulette on PLD to try to get more comfortable with the role. I've gotten a bit better about using my dps combos but I still make the mistake of going back to aggro combo spam sometimes.

I voted "too stressful" since being bad at it wasn't an option and I'd say worrying/stress contributes more to my performance than lack of interest.

[Nedkel]

I love the benefits of being tank more than anything else.
Taking any dungeon as a tank is an instant queue, a lot of the times i get extra XP for the dungeon proposal, but it might be only low lvl thing.
And tanking is not really all that bad, you feel important and needed and the heavy armor looks great.
The biggest benefit of playing a tank are those waiting times for dungeons, that bought me in, because seriously 99% of the community is playing DPS, it looks like there are actually more healers than tanks.