Shortage of Tank .......

[Wobi]

"UR a terrible tank" "LERN to hold threat" "Kill urself" (insert derogatory comment of your choice here). These are just a few of the things I've either seen people say to others or read about. I did not change the spelling for effect, but this is what people end up facing. This starts around level 15 when you have to start grouping, it's no wonder many don't continue on the path. As a tank you have to learn how to take a beating from the mobs AND your fellow players sometimes. This may help explain in part why the tank shortage is as bad as it is.

[Moirear]

Plenty of tanks at the lower levels, usually pre-level 20 dungeons. Then they must get fed up with the verbal abuse when they're not playing perfectly, and switch to other classes.

Just saying because I started out on GLD and leveling up to eventually build a PLD later, and I've noticed that tanking doesn't get you insta-queued until you reach some level over 20.

The other reason is because the fewer the tanks, the more they are in demand with their friends and/or FCs, so they tend to gravitate away from random DF groups automatically.

[KraggyKor]

"UR a terrible tank" "LERN to hold threat" "Kill urself" (insert derogatory comment of your choice here). These are just a few of the things I've either seen people say to others or read about. I did not change the spelling for effect, but this is what people end up facing. This starts around level 15 when you have to start grouping, it's no wonder many don't continue on the path. As a tank you have to learn how to take a beating from the mobs AND your fellow players sometimes. This may help explain in part why the tank shortage is as bad as it is.

This!

Of course as others have said all MMOs suffer lack of tanks .. though XIV is the first case I've seen where healers are over-abundant .. and it's often because of this.

Of course, the reverse is also true and there are large numbers of jerk tanks infesting the DF, but ultimately XIV's players are responsible for the serious lack of tanks due to the wide-spread abuse they get, as noted here.


@Tricksy: "Makes me happy, now that I invested the time in relic+1 and DL gear. "

Which you soloed because obviously you didn't need a tank?