Shortage of Tank .......

[Ksenia]

I actually started a second of my 3 legacy down the Gladiator road a few days ago. At 15 I went to the market board to gear up full bronze, HQ and even on Sargatanas, I couldn't make a set from the board. Same thing at 20 with Iron. I ended up switching out to Ksenia and making 2 full sets of Bronze HQ 15, then Iron HQ 20 and putting them on the board. All pieces for 1K or less each.

New tanks should be going in to Sastasha with full HQ and up to date gear. That can't happen if they can't get it.

The first of each set I purchased with my own character. The second was gone in 2 hrs. People want it, we just aren't making it.

[Niko_Kishiko]

Tanking in this game seems mega stressful and not really fun. I am not surprised there is a tank shortage.

[Ceol]

This isn't WoW. Go level GLD.

My "main" is WHM, but after getting bored of healing, I tried PLD, and it was a lot of fun. Now I have my PLD relic and I haven't taken WHM into AK for quite some time, since the queue for tanks is near-instantaneous. (Plus, I still need the stupid Hoplite ring... I swear, there's some anti-tank thing going on with their RNG.)

Try playing a tank. You might find it's a lot of fun compared to DPS. (Although I went back to WAR after it being one of my favorite jobs in 1.0, and I hate it now. It really does feel like a terrible PLD.)

[Amyas]

What? Nothing but Warrior haters on my server

Really? Well, its not like people shout for em specifically, I thought it was the general consensus for stuff like AK, TWP, CM and Prae though, since we've generally deal a bit more damage and are better at holding multiple mobs. Heck I don't even have any trouble starting parties for Titan as War. (just that I have to be the one to start them /sigh. Never had anyone leave because I wanted to MT though)

(Although I went back to WAR after it being one of my favorite jobs in 1.0, and I hate it now. It really does feel like a terrible PLD.)

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wut

[Ri_ri]

I want to Tank, but people requires them to be perfect and experienced. Of course, the tank is the last person who suffer when people start dropping (because running from stray Eruptions is too hard...), but I would feel hurt anyway.

[Dashuto]

I'm taking a 3rd job up in fates now and literally every party I have been in has at least 4 tanks.

I mean that. The makeup is usually 4-5 tanks and at least 2 healers, I've gone all the way up to 39 now and I've seen it nearly every party.

People got their first or 2nd jobs, their favorite to 50, and now have realized its handy to bandwagon onto PLD, WHM, SCH. So they're raising them.

[Ceol]

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wut

What "wut"? According to Yoshi, WARs shouldn't be using Inner Beast whenever possible. So my job is to just... stand there, since I don't really have any defensive cooldowns I can pop. Oh, and sometimes I get to use a conal hate move to grab mobs. But other than that, I feel like I'm just putting more pressure on my healers, despite having a 15% healing potency buff. It's not like I can pop something to help with, for instance, Garuda HM. I just have to eat her moves and hope my healers can spam me with cures while I slowly get my Wrath back up because I blew it all giving myself a 15% HP cure (that apparently doesn't give me any hate?)

[Brandino]

I have run into my share of tank haters. Mostly in the lvl 50 dg. Most people fell to realize that some player are learn the game just like you once had to they are going through the dg. to learn the ins and out just like everyone else. And yeah videos help but you have to learn it for yourself. I admit Im still trying to get my relic but i know i Need higher gear so im running dg for tomes. I like to get them over with also. So before you jump to hating run the dg and if you finish it then it was a good run. teach the other players the better ways and they teach others the community as a hold become better.

[Zoeila]

i stopped working on tank at 50 because darklight is ugly that also is why i havent leveled warrior

[Kewitt]

Well as a Tank, Level 50 Warrior. When I get 3 pulls away from the final boss in AK, And have one bad pull and 2 people leave and bitch me out because somehow we wiped on trash mobs.

Well the bitching out part really make me not want to play a tank. So basically everytime elitist people bitch out a tank they slowly kill the will of tanks to play.
Personally, I plan on finishing my relic on my warrior and putting my tank to bed because of how I get treated.

For everytime I've been bitched out because of my tanking skills I've had 2-3 parties that went perfectly.

I will Tank for my FC/LSes but not in Duty finder.

Also I would love to see any DPS player play level 50 warrior in end game. And they would find out how hard at times it is to keep hate and everyone safe. When DPS in all 80+ items gear go all out a tank in item 55 and 70 gear doesn't have a chance of keeping hate. Yet they completely and forget about the threat meter. Or better yet don't even give the tank 2-3 actions to build a base amount of hate. I don't know how many times I've toss out a tomahawk and before I can even start doing my next action the DPS are already going full bore on the mob.

Also BLM that never use Sleep or WHM that never once cast repose. Saves a lot of healing and keeps hate loss down.