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

[millktea]

Unsurprising as they made all the tanks too similar, baked in a tank stance severely taxing their damage so much that healers under certain circumstances can outdps them (eventually, they will) rather than allowing tanks to do the dps that they should be, and doing mechanics that have nothing to do with being a tank whilst forcing them off the boss (with a trait that is already taxing their dps), and not rewarding better tanks vs mediocre ones when it's easy to see a skilled dps over a less skilled one....

Tanks are players too and they want to play the game. Tanks aren't even an afterthought as that implies they'd get attention eventually -- they didn't. DPS got buffs or adjustments in patches, the tanks were ignored.

Forcing unnecessary downtime isn't fun. AFK isn't my rotation on tank. That's ridiculous. Already taxed 20 to 25% of my damage, why are tanks being forced into unnecessary downtime? Messing up a tank rotation is more punishing than a healer missing a broil/malefic/glare. And yet there they are, tailgated the tanks damage

We can't really do anything creative being a tank with self- healing. We can't adjust now that there is no tank/dps stance. Whm gets rewarded healing. Ok? Tanks don't get rewarded for tanking. Trashy tank mounts with inexclusive music isn't a reward

Every fight in shadowbringers is a massive FU to tanks. OFC tanking is trash right now:

Titania, Hades, ruby, memoria (unnecessary downtime. 3/4 you can't hit the boss at all)

Leviathan Savage, Titan Savage, Ramuh Savage, Garuda/Ifrit Savage, Shiva Savage (Eden 3, 4, 5, 6, 8) all punishing the tanks just for being a tank. Not even the healers face this discrimination. Only 7 and a little bit of 6 actually has "tank mechanics".

Only dungeons don't disrespect the tanks. Dungeons.

Enmity is bad too. Everyone but the tanks have stronger innate enmity. Babysitting a TS isn't fun. And why does it have a 10s cooldown? There's no justifiable reason for that. Make it a gcd at most.

Only Paladin grew, but got things that other tanks have

Dark Knight just mimics Warrior with sparkles

Gunbreaker is new, but doesn't require much thought and is given a cheat sheet and it's too complete that its just going to end up like warrior, getting nothing

Warrior lost most of its toolkit, lost deliverance losing its damage as well, then got nothing new. All its "new skills" arent new. They got the same skills. Same animation, same icon. It lost variety in its rotation, so you fell cleave more, decimate/cyclone less.

Not. Fun.