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

[bluecrest5]

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As for the large pull thing, this may be a minority opinion with this but I wanted to post an alternative to the large pulls is good thought. As someone who's mained DPS, when it comes time to do my job in a dungeon nothing irks me more than I've locked on to an enemy only for it to be pulled down the hallway/corridor/whatever so time is already wasted that I could be doing damage. I've also had a good number of times, not the majority, where we've wiped from large pulls. I know it's different for everyone but I'd like to start doing my job in the dungeon, thank you. Silvos, my best friends main's name, agrees though it doesn't bother me. As a result I've told myself I will never do that because I think it's rude to the DPS to make them wait instead of dealing with the enemies as we get to them. Now this part has only happened while I've been playing Monk but I've also had issue in big pulls, later in the game, where I get out of AOE only to have another start right where I moved to.

Anyway, sorry this got really long winded and I don't expect everyone or even most people to agree with me on this at all. It's fine, we all have our own opinions. I've had to deal with a troll who felt he needed to try to me make feel stupid for suggesting something he thought was a dumb idea, I would not mind discussing what I've posted. An ego boost and some reassurance wouldn't hurt either. I'm still debating on it though and part of me still wants to try to do it as well as SUM on Aragorn, my main. Silvos wants to try tanking as he levels DRG again along side Gunbreaker. Thanks to anyone who reads this and let's hope Covid blows over soon.

[ReiMakoto]

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As for the large pull thing, this may be a minority opinion with this but I wanted to post an alternative to the large pulls is good thought. As someone who's mained DPS, when it comes time to do my job in a dungeon nothing irks me more than I've locked on to an enemy only for it to be pulled down the hallway/corridor/whatever so time is already wasted that I could be doing damage. I've also had a good number of times, not the majority, where we've wiped from large pulls. I know it's different for everyone but I'd like to start doing my job in the dungeon, thank you. Silvos, my best friends main's name, agrees though it doesn't bother me. As a result I've told myself I will never do that because I think it's rude to the DPS to make them wait instead of dealing with the enemies as we get to them. Now this part has only happened while I've been playing Monk but I've also had issue in big pulls, later in the game, where I get out of AOE only to have another start right where I moved to.

Anyway, sorry this got really long winded and I don't expect everyone or even most people to agree with me on this at all. It's fine, we all have our own opinions. I've had to deal with a troll who felt he needed to try to me make feel stupid for suggesting something he thought was a dumb idea, I would not mind discussing what I've posted. An ego boost and some reassurance wouldn't hurt either. I'm still debating on it though and part of me still wants to try to do it as well as SUM on Aragorn, my main. Silvos wants to try tanking as he levels DRG again along side Gunbreaker. Thanks to anyone who reads this and let's hope Covid blows over soon.

Are you refering to someone running off to pull more after already settling into a pull, or are you talking about someone just pulling everything when you say its anoying when the mobs get moved away, because all classes can deal damage whilst moving along with the tank to enemies and it will always be more damage in the long run to wait a few seconds more then hit more enemies with your aoe. Remember as well some tanks need to do 2 aoes before moving onto the next back to secure aggro so don't try to settle in immediatly.

[bluecrest5]

Actually Puglist/Monk has no hit from distance attack, but yes I mean the latter. Treating their pull like my friend describes buffet etiquette, grab and go or in this case, pull and move. It's almost feels like the tank is saying, "nope you can't do you job until I say so." I know that's not the intent and I've come to expect it. So while it still irks me, I deal with it because nothing I say will change anything anyway. Also unless they've changed it, Summoner's AoE sucked. There was only one, it took time to aim, and didn't do much damage. I ended up not using it. The getting out of one AoE part is more an annoyance since I didn't have that issue when I was using Summoner or Bard, which I will say I didn't care for Bard much as the game went on. I've since bought Red Mage for him, Robert, since I based him on Robin Hood anyway.

[ReiMakoto]

Actually Puglist/Monk has no hit from distance attack, but yes I mean the latter. Treating their pull like my friend describes buffet etiquette, grab and go or in this case, pull and move. It's almost feels like the tank is saying, "nope you can't do you job until I say so." I know that's not the intent and I've come to expect it. So while it still irks me, I deal with it because nothing I say will change anything anyway. Also unless they've changed it, Summoner's AoE sucked. There was only one, it took time to aim, and didn't do much damage. I ended up not using it. The getting out of one AoE part is more an annoyance since I didn't have that issue when I was using Summoner or Bard, which I will say I didn't care for Bard much as the game went on. I've since bought Red Mage for him, Robert, since I based him on Robin Hood anyway.

You can do your job though, even on monk, your aoe isnt targetted so you can spam your aoe while moving in the mob group, same with any class, you can hit the mobs while theyre moving you dont need to wait, sprint will help you keep up too

Smn has multiple aoe moves, all of them good.