Dark Knight

[chococo]

The problem here is that they cannot keep adding DPS classes and leave out tanks, otherwise you're never going to find a tank in DF, so before they start plaguing the game with dps they should at least add 1 tank and 1 healer.
Or just make the DRK a tank

Just a thought, it's not really about the ratio of tank jobs vs DPS jobs, but rather the ratio of players wanting to play tanks vs the players wanting to play DPS. Even if there's only say 2 DPS in the game, if I don't want to play tank, I'd pick one of the 2 DPS anyway. In essence, a DPS player will just choose the DPS that suits him/her the most out of the number of possible choices, be it 2, 3, or 100.

[Bloodclaw]

Just a thought, it's not really about the ratio of tank jobs vs DPS jobs, but rather the ratio of players wanting to play tanks vs the players wanting to play DPS. Even if there's only say 2 DPS in the game, if I don't want to play tank, I'd pick one of the 2 DPS anyway. In essence, a DPS player will just choose the DPS that suits him/her the most out of the number of possible choices, be it 2, 3, or 100.

You are correct, however the idea is to throw enough options out there so that it might draw more people in due to their themes. You have the Japanese tank: Sam, Dark tank: Warrior, Light Tank: Paladain, Magic Tank: ???, Dodge Tank: ???, etc...

Also another thing that might be a problem is ratio of classes. Perhaps having only 2 tanks and 4 damage dealers is a tad off. Too many people leveling their DPS classes and not enough leveling tanks.

With a need for tanks, having more options will help, but it should be class concepts that work as such and work how people expect them to, especially to keep things like the current summoner from happening again.