What do you guys think is the cause of severe lack of Tank users?

[Maeka]

I think part of the problem that there aren't a whole lot of tanks around, are 8-man battles.

They are rather detrimental to tank players. I find the Adventurer in Need is almost always tank for Trials and Normal Raid, and the reason why is simple: 50/50 chance you're just going to be a gimp DPS with a very boring rotation.

Very few Trials have anything for an OT to actually do, no adds to pick up, no swaps, nothing. You show up, and if you're the lesser-geared, you do a 1-2-3 rotation the whole fight and..... nothing else.

I think there really could be more add phases for battles to give the OT something to actually do, and make it so you don't want the MT grabbing the adds because of cleaves and such. Or maybe the adds place a defense-down on the tank, so you don't want the main boss and the adds both on the same tank. That would at least give tanks more reason to run 8-man content.

For example, Titania is awesome. The MT and OT actually have to go through an add phase, and if they screw it up, the whole group dies.

However, fights like Ravana, Byakko, half of the Eden fights, etc... no adds, and no swaps, the OT is only there in case the MT dies and that's just boring.