Is Tank the happiest/most satisfied role right now?

[Absurdity]

I'm simply done constantly complaining about the same points.

Warrior is an absolute snoozefest of a job that has slowly had all remaining nuance sucked out of it after 4.2, Hypervelocity and Double Down were a mistake, tanks have been gradually reduced to gimped dps that just get hit in the face more often ever since Shadowbringers, the 2 minute meta is absolute garbage that not only makes the gameplay even more boring than it has been in ShB but also restricts job design further (not just a tank issue but it affects them all the same), yada yada.

Could I make a new thread about it every 4 months? Sure, but it's not going to change anything, certainly not in this expansion. So I'm at a point where I simply wait until 7.0 and if none of my issues are adressed I'm gonna look somewhere else.

Maybe there's not as much complaining anymore because we've already been dealing with it for 3 years, Shadowbringers dealt the majority of damage, Endwalker just doubled down on it.

[Oizen]

I'm simply done constantly complaining about the same points.

Warrior is an absolute snoozefest of a job that has slowly had all remaining nuance sucked out of it after 4.2, Hypervelocity and Double Down were a mistake, tanks have been gradually reduced to gimped dps that just get hit in the face more often ever since Shadowbringers, the 2 minute meta is absolute garbage that not only makes the gameplay even more boring than it has been in ShB but also restricts job design further (not just a tank issue but it affects them all the same), yada yada.

Could I make a new thread about it every 4 months? Sure, but it's not going to change anything, certainly not in this expansion. So I'm at a point where I simply wait until 7.0 and if none of my issues are adressed I'm gonna look somewhere else.

Maybe there's not as much complaining anymore because we've already been dealing with it for 3 years, Shadowbringers dealt the majority of damage, Endwalker just doubled down on it.

I don't think the developers even view it as an issue how much combat has been dumbed down

[Icecylee]

Honestly the only reason the tank section looks calm, comparatively, is that most of the louder people seem to have burned themselves out after years of complaints have largely gone ignored. Or just straight up left/quit the game. Also, unhappy dps know that dps issues tend to be addressed faster and there's more options to find something else they can settle on if their current job gets messed with in a way they can't stand. The tank forums also tend to get a *lot* less random people rolling into them to tell older players they're wrong about the issues they have with the role, so there tends to be significantly less of the constant screaming about the same 2-3 topics that the healer section gets. And you can only have the same conversations with the same people so many times before everyone collectively gets bored of it. So, I guess, it's most just of a sigh of quiet acceptance that there's not much point at screaming at the heavens over here, rather than being happy. A degree of worn down apathy rather than anger, I guess.

[IDontPetLalas]

Honestly the only reason the tank section looks calm, comparatively, is that most of the louder people seem to have burned themselves out after years of complaints have largely gone ignored. Or just straight up left/quit the game. Also, unhappy dps know that dps issues tend to be addressed faster and there's more options to find something else they can settle on if their current job gets messed with in a way they can't stand. The tank forums also tend to get a *lot* less random people rolling into them to tell older players they're wrong about the issues they have with the role, so there tends to be significantly less of the constant screaming about the same 2-3 topics that the healer section gets. And you can only have the same conversations with the same people so many times before everyone collectively gets bored of it. So, I guess, it's most just of a sigh of quiet acceptance that there's not much point at screaming at the heavens over here, rather than being happy. A degree of worn down apathy rather than anger, I guess.

Agreed, I would just add that I wouldn't say that the healer section is *screaming* , as you noted in your own post DPS issues are addresses quickly, you may say that tank issue are addressed more slowly, however healer questions and multiple (perceived) issues have been there for years without any attention.